# Where are all the militant Muslims?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-militant-muslims/629837>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [July 30, 2012, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-militant-muslims/629837 "2012-07-30T09:46:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-militant-muslims/629837/101 "2012-08-03T22:05:43Z")

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**TonySinclair** – I tried to use the basic arguments in this thread to persuade a man I’ve known for 15 years that Muslims were not all terrorists.

I saw the doors close behind his eyes as certainly as I can see the computer screen in front of me. ☹

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**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-militant-muslims/629837/102 "2012-08-03T23:07:34Z")

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> [@FinnAgain](#):
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> It’s so very, very obvious that you’re grasping at straws and you’ve been hoisted on your own petard. Not only have you simply made up your 10% figure out of thin air, not only is there no necessary causal connection between hatred and murderous actions… well whatever you claim motivates extremists who hate us? Whatever you might happen to claim that it is, then \*we know that your own claims must be false under your own rationalization, because we don’t see “10%” of people so “afflicted” committing acts of terrorism. \*
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> When you voice an argument that’s so sloppy and ad hoc that it obviously refutes itself, all so you can cast about claims of tinfoil hattery… it may be time to sit down.

So that was a plea to stick to objective facts and elevate the tone of the debate?

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**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2012, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-militant-muslims/629837/103 "2012-08-04T16:28:06Z")

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Won’t someone think of the [del]children[/del] tone?!?

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