Glenn Greenwald vs Sam Harris on Islamophobia

[Donald Ian Rankin]

3. The article you link to (although not your post) contains some really glaring idiocy.

He says that the US is responsible for the majority of the violence in the world today. This is just lunatic, especially in a discussion of Islam. Firstly, he's just wrong - I think he must be a) confusing "majority of the violence reported in the American media" with "Majority of violence in the world".

Secondly, and more importantly, the only way he could possibly be thinking that is if he's attributing all the violence in Afghanistan and Iraq to America. But what's happening in those countries is *not* Americans killing people, it's America *failing to prevent* evil Muslim fanatics killing people because of their religion. One could make a case that the impossibility of preventing that was something America should have forseen, and hence that they do bare secondary responsibility for those deaths. But the primary responsibility - the people actually deliberately doing nearly all the killing, rather than just failing to prevent it - lies directly at the door of Islam.