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Probably for much the same reasons that non-muslims aren't taking to the streets; ISIS are hardly likely to stop this campaign because of a protest march.

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Muslims took to the streets yesterday. To prevent the arrest of the terrorist:

http://www.brusselnieuws.be/nl/nieuws/jongeren-gooiden-stene...

And then this happens. What are we supposed to think ?

Clearly the best response to violent and fatal intolerance....is more kneejerk intolerance.

Assuming all Muslims are ideologically the same, and that Muslims monolithically defend this sort of behavior is an asinine assumption.

That's a strawman. Nobody intelligent is claiming that. The claim is that the ones that follow this jihad ideology and islamic supremacism are too many to reasonably expect to control without starting a civil war. They are a quite large contingent of muslims as a whole and a very large (certainly 20-30% but probably far more) of muslim youth.

Rather than dismissing things as "strawmen," it would help if you clearly elucidate your claims before you make (what appear to be) broad brush statements, e.g. "Muslims took to the streets", "What are we supposed to think?".

Your original post comes across as prototypical "us vs. them", "we are the good guys" blather. Yes, murder and violence are indefensible, but otherization does nothing to work towards deeper understanding of the causes/issues at play.

> That's a strawman. Nobody intelligent is claiming that.

Plenty of Hacker News users claim it all the time, unfortunately.

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