Culture War on Islam Edition (Adam Serwer & Eli Lake)

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Originally Posted by student

This just completely fails.

1. Al Qaeda isn't the Islamic equivalent to Muslims as the Catholic Church is to Catholics.
2. Being critical of the Catholic Church for it's active crimes in worldwide pedophilia is not the same as being critical to Muslims for sharing the same religion as terrorists.

Utterly foolish.

It does completely fail. but Eli's whole argument in favor of these people who are opposing the Mosque completely fails. It comes across as if he agrees with their opposition but too scared to come right out and say I too am a bigot who thinks all Muslims are terrorists.