Perplexed wrote:according to you, the protests in afghanistan were the biggest ever
Perplexed wrote:also, your article shows that you have no understandin of islam whatsoever.
Perplexed wrote:Your entire article is full of.... factual problems, please do SOME research at least before you make these kinds of claims.
(my emphasis)
Perplexed, you make the same basic mistake here three times in a row.
Bumble Bee Boogie posted an article. We all post articles. There can be many different reasons to do so: because it's got some interesting fact, because it proposes a POV that was lacking, because you think the author's point is thought-provoking -- there's all such motives alongside the "hey, he's saying exactly what I'm thinking" one.
There is no automatic equation between someone posting an article and it being exactly his/her views, whatsoever.
In this case, BBB even pointed out specifically that she did not fully agree with the author:
Quote:Sam Harris is only partly right.
And she added one point already she disagreed with him on:
Quote:History is replete with terrorists of all political ideologies and religions of both the right and of the left.
so note that she specifically expressed disagreement with a statement of Harris's that you then bashed her about anyway as if it were
hers ("before
you make these kinds of claims").
To just quickly run down your responses:
Perplexed wrote:according to you, the protests in afghanistan were the biggest ever
Not according to
her; according to the article she posted, to its author. You will find out that BBB posts a lot of articles here, enormous amounts even, all in full (not to all of our liking..).
Perplexed wrote:also, your article shows that you have no understandin of islam whatsoever.
This is not logical. What the
article she posted says can not prove that
she doesnt understand. If you are right, then your point shows that
the author of the article lacks understanding of Islam. Thats not BBB.
Perplexed wrote:Your entire article is full of.... factual problems, please do SOME research at least before you make these kinds of claims.
She doesnt make any claims. The author makes claims. She could have had any reason to bring it - most of the time she brings liberal-US kind of stuff, but sometimes she goes out on various degrees of a limp (uhm - that didnt come out right - but you know what i mean).
She might have done lots of research, and this could be one out of twenty articles she posted on roughly this area of discussion (with BBB, noone's counting ;-)).
I'm guessing she agreed with some stuff, perhaps a lot of stuff, but not all, or by far not all. Thats pretty much how it is with most copy/pastes - how often do you find someone you completely agree with? Doesnt mean you might not consider something interesting anyway.
Anyway, long post but basically just a heads-up.
