You guys are pretty cool for the most part. Keep up the good work.

11/12/2014 9:18:45 AM

for the most part

11/12/2014 9:31:04 AM

you fraternize with a large number of muslims, eh, EMCE?

11/12/2014 10:06:52 AM

A few, yes. One of good friends, amusingly enough, has the same name as a boxing legend.

11/12/2014 10:10:17 AM

he lends them boxers to sniff

11/12/2014 10:10:26 AM

itt we learn that knowing "a few" people of a certain subset qualifies one to make generalizations about the subset as a whole

i knew two people named "chad"...both ended up in jail...therefore, people named chad are, for the most part, bound for jail

11/12/2014 10:15:21 AM

i too know a Muslim named George Foreman

11/12/2014 10:16:29 AM

11/12/2014 10:19:28 AM

Hey guy, I think you're reading too much into this.

[Edited on November 12, 2014 at 10:29 AM. Reason : Chads are dicks though. Dont trust them. stay away from those guys.]

11/12/2014 10:22:54 AM

quag's right. just because you know a few cool muslims, does not mean that the vast majority of them are not pretty cool. But I do know an Italian guy who grew-up in a baptist church, but has been a practicing muslim for the last 15 years. He's pretty cool. But again, that doesn't mean that most muslims are cool. You shouldn't generalize like that.

11/12/2014 10:31:32 AM

fwiw, though, every muslim i've met IRL has been pleasant

not so with every self-identified christian and atheist, but there's a much larger sample set i'm drawing from

11/12/2014 10:40:44 AM

This is the first time ITT I have typed the word "know".

I really think you all are reading (and inferring) way too much into this.

[Edited on November 12, 2014 at 10:42 AM. Reason : quag, dont change the subject. we are talking about those chad assholes now, ok?!]

11/12/2014 10:41:08 AM

so you admit to fraternizing with them, but not to knowing them? that's odd.

11/12/2014 10:42:10 AM

I knew a guy name Chad. Coincidentally, he was also from Chad. He was white Catholic. He was nice, but I think a lot of it was fake.

11/12/2014 10:47:20 AM

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"A few, yes. One of good friends, amusingly enough, has the same name as a boxing legend."

YOU'RE FRIENDS WITH A GUY NAMED BUTTERBEAN???

11/12/2014 11:02:29 AM

A year later, and my opinion of Muslims remains UNCHANGED

11/17/2015 11:42:36 AM

Ahahahahaha

OMG FUNNIEST SHIT EVER

You HAVE TO watch this video by a religious-looking Muslim man going on a rant cursing out extremists and terrorists left and right using very flowery language!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3321962/If-don-t-like-country-f-did-come-Impassioned-speech-Muslim-decries-ISIS-terrorists-trying-impose-Sharia-law-West.html

The way he uses all variations of the f-word, love it, just love it,

11/18/2015 7:27:32 AM

that doesn't seem very religious.

11/18/2015 8:44:22 AM

even properly religious people have their limit if you piss them off lol

11/18/2015 8:50:18 AM

Well this really hits home...

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"More than twice as many members of violent Islamist organizations have engineering degrees as have degrees in Islamic studies. Nearly half of those terrorists who had degrees had degrees in engineering. Even if you make extremely generous assumptions, nine times as many terrorists were engineers as you would expect by chance. They find a similar pattern among Islamist terrorists who grew up in the West – fewer of these terrorists had college degrees, but even more of those who had degrees were engineers."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/11/17/this-is-the-group-thats-surprisingly-prone-to-violent-extremism/

[Edited on November 18, 2015 at 1:30 PM. Reason : ]

11/18/2015 1:30:35 PM

it's no secret getting an engineering degree makes you hate the world

11/18/2015 1:40:12 PM

^^
That's interesting. Engineers tend to be among the more conservative college majors, I wonder if there is a connection.

11/18/2015 1:58:51 PM

I blame webassign

11/18/2015 2:26:52 PM

We should organize a "hug a Muslim day" soon

12/6/2015 8:53:24 PM

I know two, from Sudan, and both are extremely nice guys.

12/6/2015 9:08:03 PM

So you admit that they are Muslim EXTREMISTS (of being nice)

[Edited on December 6, 2015 at 10:35 PM. Reason : ]

12/6/2015 10:34:18 PM

There is a lot of fucked-upedness within the Islamic world, no doubt...but what we're seeing and hearing from half (or a third, or quarter or whatever) of our country right now is absolutely shameful and disgraceful.

12/6/2015 11:12:04 PM

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"That's interesting. Engineers tend to be among the more conservative college majors, I wonder if there is a connection."

Yeah, but...immigrants don't nearly as often come to study in America so that they can get degrees in art history or communication or some shit. At a minimum, you'd have to control for how many of their [non-terrorist] societal peers who came to America to study got degrees in an engineering discipline. I would expect that it would likely be every bit of 9x less.

On a side note, the Arabs I interacted with in Iraq and Qatar were mostly very nice people (didn't really have a lot of interaction with Afghans when I was there, or Kuwaitis for the few days I stopped over there, although I assume Kuwaitis are relatively similar to their Iraqi and Qatari brethren). It really is a fascinating part of the world, too...I'd love to go visit again someday if the situation ever permits.

There are a few of them who are dicks; it's usually due to be hypersensitive with personal pride with respect to a foreigner in their country...and really, the instances I'm thinking of were in Qatar, where they're generally wealthy and can be kind of...entitled. Every person I dealt with personally, though, was great.

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"it's no secret getting an engineering degree makes you hate the world"

Go get your face fucked.

12/6/2015 11:22:33 PM