[kirklancaster]

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Originally Posted by DemolitionRed View Post
"I'll tell you exactly why some people get irked by threads like this....It becomes offensive when constant negativities are applied to the same group of people whose lifestyle you don't agree with"

What does this ACTUALLY mean?

Anyone who DOES NOT agree with something is hardly likely to apply constant positives to that thing in their posts on the subject are they?

"...and it becomes even more offensive when you treat that same group unfavourably to another group who have the same characteristics"

How are you able to state that other 'groups' who have not formed any part of the subjects polled, "have the same characteristics" as the Muslims who were polled?

"Stereotyping Muslims is common here and that gets debated (as it should) by people who see it as a very regular and deliberate discrimination against one group of people."

If the poll was carried out impartially with genuine Muslims being randomly polled, then any 'stereotyping' of Muslims as a result of the poll findings, is being perpetrated by those Muslims polled and ONLY those Muslims polled.

Would you have the truth concealed because it does not fit with your own particular viewpoint?

Or would you ban ANY polling of Muslims because the findings of such polls may - by the very volition of those Muslims so polled - show Muslims in a less-than-favourable light?

The TRUTH is the TRUTH is the TRUTH whether it offends certain parties or not.

I for one would not flinch if I was a gay man visiting the Vatican as a tourist and the Pope and his entourage suggested showing me the spectacular views from the top of St. Peter's Basilica, and the same were it the Anglican Bishop of London and his aides inviting me up to the top of St Paul's Cathedral. Ditto a plethora of other religions.

As a gay man however, I would NOT be seen within a thousand miles of any tall building in Palmyra in Syria, or al-Furat in Iraq, or any other location, in the company of a group of 'Muslims' - extremist or not.

No - this is NOT due to any 'Islamophobia' on my part - just a logical acceptance of the TRUTH.