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[yguy]

Originally Posted by mickthinks

Hussein Ibish on [David] Horowitz's website:

That's ("they were all moderate pious muslims, not extremists or radicals") high praise for Osama Bin Ladin, unless of course you already agree that describing someone as a good muslim or a pious muslim is itself a pejorative.

It may well be, for all I know, depending on how "Muslim" is defined. If belief in the Koran as the Word of God is a necessary qualification for being a Muslim, and if the Koran endorses a "convert them or kill them" attitude towards infidels* (which the Bible does NOT, BTW), then certainly there is nothing admirable about being a Muslim.

*I'm hedging on that because I haven't studied the Koran at all.

Now, however you slice this, this stuff is very bad for our country, it's very bad for our society, it's bad for our culture and discourse. So I think there are a lot of things to be worried about, and one of them is wild rhetoric like this.

I think Horowitz addressed this perfectly well. While he is responsible for the contents of his website, he can no more said to be endorsing the opinions of every contributing writer than AJ can be said to be endorsing the views of Horowitz.

But of course Ibish harped on it throughout the debate because he can't find fault with anything Horowitz himself said.