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Originally Posted by tbomachines
The issue comes in when people start painting all Muslims with the same brush, or implying they are all as "extreme" as some nutjobs.
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That's an issue for sure, but when the majority of people seem to condone "extremism" then it's no longer extreme now is it? It's now normal - just as it was normal for Germans to hate jews in the later 30's.
Who is smashing stores because the stores seem to violate some religious tenant? Extremists or mainstream Maldivian Muslims? In the Maldives normal is extreme for other parts of the world- so now most Maldivian Muslims are approving of the violent actions.