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And that's your argument? Negative correlation based on your own incredulity?

The terrorists themselves claim a religious muslim tradition. The best you have is that they're brainwashed victims, because, well, there's lots of other muslims who don't become terrorists?

You have no basic reasoning capabilities yourself. At least the poster you were responding to had a correlation. You have nothing.

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> The terrorists themselves claim a religious muslim tradition.

And other terrorists claim other traditions. We could look at all those traditions as unrelated, unconnected causes of terrorism because, hey, that's what each of the terrorists said was important to them -- or we could look for common features that link them to try to understand why people become terrorists.

All terrorists are humans. That's a correlation just like all terrorists are Muslims. Maybe you should continue narrowing it down to a more specific cause/group instead of spreading this hatred against Muslims in general.

That would require honest research and inquiry, which is impossible now. Multiculturalism, as envisioned by the New Left is a sacred cow and any inquiry into the original claims and models behind it is dealt with harshly. Just witness the flagellation of Robert Putnam among the sociological left.

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