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Albertoo

(2,016 posts)
Wed May 25, 2016, 09:37 AM May 2016

I think I can convince you

I am sure you share the view that any large group (say 1k+) taken randomly will show the same Gaussian dispersion around the mean for any given item: being nice, clever, whatever.

However, the mean can be changed by the prevalent socio-political discourse in society. You wouldn't find half the population of Iraeland or Cambodia in favor of the death penalty for adultery or blasphemy, while it is the average in the global Muslim world (with vast differences by country). That ludicrous 'mean' position can only be attributed, not to people, but to the ideology itself.

It is thus clearly not a case of racism but one of ideology: there is a problem with Islam.
(and one with the Roman Catholic Church about condoms and gays in Africa)

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