@nonsensiclesnail I always believed us to be better than that.

@hunter2016 Hmm, what do we say about liberty and safety? And yes, fear mongering generally involves exaggerated claims and appeals to that mythical concept of perfect safety. But when you break it down by the numbers, it just doesn't wash.

@QuixoticSoul I agree, but to me it is not worth the risk

@hunter2016 Risk needs to be assessed soberly and systematically - not emotionally.

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@Glassysky Nevermind that white muslims exist too.

@AmbivalentFriability Or that millions of Arabs are Christians

@JP1119 I see you are American - but you are attacking this lady because of her right to free speech, you are typical left wing nutter, if they disagree with your point of view you attack them - talk about being a hypocrite

@nedkelly You are attacking his right to free speech, which includes calling someone on their bullshit. Pot, kettle, etc.

Though on a privately owned web site like that, none of us have any special rights to self-expression - except the right not to get arrested by the state.

@Glassysky

Actually my dear, this IS the place to discuss politics... Just look at the Header at the top of your screen that says "Politics".

This website is here for the purpose of discussing whatever it is you want to discuss, assuming one goes to the correct location within the website to do so.

If you are looking to bring people together, you then are in fact the one who is in the wrong place to bring people together... try the "Community" section! That's where everyone goes to get stoned, hold hands and stand naked like groupies at a garden party.

@metaldog Religion is seriously Cancer. We need to abandon it.

@BetweenKittensandRiots as humans evolve it will disappear

@QuixoticSoul Active Deism is about constructing supplementary arguments and evidence for God existing. This is in terms of inventing false deductive arguments and false testable evidence- which is different from a theist strictly reliant on inductive arguments and testimonial evidence. It's a matter of their specialization- whether the definition you read mentions this nefarious activity or not.

@LucyCan I never said that America was founded on deism. I said that many of the founding fathers were Deists. Which is why they worded the first amendment so carefully to make sure it preserved from us [i]from[/i] religion as much as anything else.

The standard proof for existence of god used by most Deists is the cosmological argument, which has both inductive and deductive components. But in practice, they were more preoccupied with poking holes in Christianity, and just took it from the prevalent natural theology stuff popular at the time.

@QuixoticSoul haha! Too quick on the draw. I removed that comment before finalizing.

@SW-User you're not wrong are you

@SW-User I had small heart palpitations. 😅 Apparently my ability to read sarcasm is off.
I was so shocked.

Free country and open borders are not one in the same. People here are free but everyone does not have the right to come here

@hunter2016 Yes I agree there, but I didn't say anything about open borders. It's still better than some of the Muslim countries.

@nevergiveup That and people make religion out of anything even planes lol. If we all abolished religion then something else would just become our "savior." Reminds me of Monty Python 🤔

@QuixoticSoul lol

@Goralski There isn't like, a ban or anything. Not accepting refugees is not the same thing as prohibiting Muslims.

@Goralski There have been Muslims in Poland-- like forever. Tatars.

@496sbc Lmao

@496sbc So unsafe.

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So.

@DannyVD What exactly did you see, and where?

[quote]Nine-in-ten U.S. Muslims agree either completely (66%) or mostly (26%) with the statement, “I am proud to be American.” Only a handful of U.S. Muslims disagree with this statement either completely (4%) or mostly (2%).

Muslim immigrants are at least as likely as U.S.-born Muslims to express pride in being American. At the same time, immigrants who have been in the U.S. for longer are somewhat more likely than recent immigrants to say they are proud to be American.

Muslim adults younger than 30 are less likely than older Muslims to say they are proud to be American. The same pattern is evident among the population as a whole.[/quote]

[quote]Although both Muslim Americans and the U.S. public as a whole overwhelmingly reject violence against civilians, Muslims are more likely to say such actions can never be justified. Three-quarters of U.S. Muslims (76%) say this, compared with 59% of the general public. Similar shares of Muslims (12%) and all U.S. adults (14%) say targeting and killing civilians can “often” or “sometimes” be justified.[/quote]

From Pew Research Center's demographic profile on Muslims in America.

As for crimes - all groups of people commit crimes. Muslims in America actually seem to do it at lower rates than average. If you take just the Muslim immigrants, the rates drop even further. This makes some sense, as getting deported back to the Middle East is a hefty deterrence.

@AmbivalentFriability We shouldn't let the Christians into America either, you're right

@ParaPacem Christians believe that trans is morally wrong to them but do not "hate" anybody. Muslims believe you should be beheaded if your trans. Please don't group them together

@hunter2016 I assure you, plenty of people on all sides hate equally. Mainstream Christianity may not hate transgender people, but there are plenty of fringe groups that claim Christian beliefs and act out of nothing but hatred.

Nor his tiny gloves.

@hlpflwthat

Nor the truth which he only shares with his hair stylist as he sits under the dryer.

They have the best dryers. Lovely dryers - you've never seen dryers till you've seen these dryers. The best.