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Most people would conclude that is evidence I'm not racist. Not on Bluemoon. Why would a person join an Islamic-owned football club if they hate Muslims? After all, I wasn't born into this club, I joined voluntarily. I picked this club when I could have picked many other clubs owned by my own...

You literally cite my support of a Muslim-owned football club as evidence that I'm racist. TBH you don't make much sense in these debates.

Why do I need to make up my mind? There's no mind to be made. He could very well have been affiliated with that group and committed this crime. Some on twitter who are more familiar with the group said that it began as a KKK-affiliated outfit but, much later, disaffected minorities sometimes...

Usually victorious opponents don't need to resort to insults and falling back on argumentum ad populum logical fallacies. In my experience. You got frustrated and let it show with an outburst, and you're a mod. That's good enough for me.

Then it's pretty weird for a black man to be a part of that group. http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-baton-rouge-police-killed-live-baton-rouge-gunman-1468790039-htmlstory.html

Resort to childish insults when your debate opponent wrecks you with facts. Did that make you feel better ?

Yes, it's very bizarre. The group was apparently originally a KKK-affiliated group but, for some reason, certain minorities were attracted to it due to the distrust of the government. Or at least that's what I gather on twitter. Then again, he ranted against "crackers" on his Youtube channel and...

You don't need a scholarship in Islamic ideology to study the motives behind suicide bombers, any more than you need a Doctor of Divinity in Catholicism to see that the Catholic church had an abuse problem. No point in wasting my time answering ludicrous arguments like this.

Who said they didn't? Once again, I said "less prone", not "they don't commit terrorist acts." So you aren't rebutting what I said. In the San Bernardino case, the American citizen was radicalized by his wife, a woman who grew up in Saudi and Pakistan, arguably the two most extreme Sunni...

Huh? I assert that they want to kill men and women from their own cultures who are apostates. They are frequently imprisoned, given death sentences, but then senior courts (which aren't necessarily Islamic courts, more like arms of the ruling government) reduce the sentence to X years in prison...

Oh, that's an easy one to answer. Our immigration is set up to allow in mostly professionals from that part of the world. Muslims in America disproportionately descend from those who were doctors, lawyers, scientists, and other professional classes. They are highly educated and obey the law...

I said Catholic, not devout Catholic. The goalposts here won't be moved. Whether they were devout is irrelevant. The Catholic church, through its structure, facilitated the abuse. And while Catholic teachings didn't increase the risk of child molestation, the Catholic structure of the church...

I thought you were drawing a parallel with Islam. In Islam, the Quran and hadiths are often at odds. On one hand, the Quran commands Islamic rulers to respect nonbelievers by charging them a special tax. Acceptable in 700, not so much in 2016. Unfortunately Islam also has hadtihs, a word that...

If Catholicism had commands to molest children and started the Catholic State of the Levant, where child molestation is common, then yeah, Catholicism's teachings would be to blame. Luckily, rather than defend and support child molestation, Catholics worldwide walked out of churches and...

Uh no, they said the Catholic church has a problem with child molestation because it was so widespread. And they were right. Islam has a huge problem, across multiple sects, with respecting the lives of women and nonbelievers. It's not even debatable.

Multiple reports that the shooter is tied to Sovereign Citizens movement, an anti-police group. Could be a man named Gavin Eugene Long.

Exactly. These desperate attempts to exculpate a certain religion/culture are laughable. I don't remember anyone saying the child molester Catholic priests "weren't really Christian."

Would you do me a favor and read the letter from one of the dead officers today? His name was Montrell Jackson, and he's reportedly died today (though there is no official confirmation yet). Here is what he wrote in July:

That needs to be done through nonviolent protest and elections, not through mass murders of police officers. We will never capitulate to terrorism. Changing our judicial system to placate violent madmen is no different than letting terrorists run the country. Vote. Protest. Join the police...

If they're in the street protesting police brutality, that's fine. That's good and righteous. Police should have body cameras. Police should know and be representative of the communities they serve. These are good suggestions to reduce police brutality and increase trust. If the protests are a...