If Jones is responsible, Muslims have no will, no responsibility, no humanity

Submitted by Abu Nudnik (Canada), Apr 7, 2011 at 11:03

If Jones is responsible, Muslims have no will, no responsibility, no humanity and to say so is to insult Muslims in a way infinitely beyond anything Jones did. It is to call them not only less than human, less than animal, less than sentient beings of any kind including micro-organisms. It is to call them mere things: machines with buttons and levers that can be pulled and pushed at will. If anything is anti-Muslim it is to blame anyone but the murderers for the lives they robbed. They murdered people. Those people are dead.

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