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Originally Posted by Dreadnought
With that being said, I will absolutely argue emotionally to a man who tells me that the enemy of America is Islam and, by association, Muslims. I will argue this until I die. I have not worked with a 22 year old Afghani special ops. squad leader, who was indeed Muslim, but who believed in the sanctity of his country and the equality that he believed his people should have just to see his face blown off by the real enemy that we continue to fight every day.
I will not allow it. If a man does not get emotional over such things, then I do not know what some of you expect. Perhaps some of you have been out of it for too long, or cannot relate on a personal level to what is going. I will not casually tolerate someone attempting to tell me that that man is the enemy of America simply because of his choice of religion.
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The statement that "Islam is a threat to America" does not imply a judgment of every single person who identifies himself as a Muslim. Taken at face value, it simply means that the ideology of Islam and its propagation threatens the continued existence of a distinct Western civilization. It says nothing about the merits or intentions of individual Muslims, to include the squad leader to whom you referred.
This is a very important point. When it comes to foreign policy (to include immigration policy), we cannot bind ourselves to judging every single individual on his or her merits. We have to take a common sense approach to these problems, and this approach will necessarily be based on generalizations about certain populations. Such approaches are taboo because they implicitly reject the popular notion that "fairness" with regard to individuals must be the highest priority. Rather, they are based on the prioritization of maintaining our national security and identity.
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