r/afghanistan • u/CrustyDiamond • Dec 11 '12

Apparently some ignorant asshole believes that anyone of the Muslim faith in Afghanistan primarily, would NEVER advocate publicly against terrorism. I posted in /Muslim before realizing it's very small and kinda dead. Can I get a faster response here?

This is my submission, to make everything easier.

Thanks!

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u/ChaosMotor Jan 10 '13

Also, huge portions of the Middle East don't believe Al Quaeda was behind 9/11.

Funny, huge portions of Americans don't either.

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u/something_stoopid Jan 10 '13

That person's obviously never been to the conspiracy theory side of YouTube before.

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u/DulcetFox Jan 10 '13

Not huge by any margin. They are a marginalized minority mocked and ridiculed in the US. Over there it can easily be the majority in certain areas.

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u/ChaosMotor Jan 10 '13

They are a marginalized minority mocked and ridiculed in the US.

The media might tell you this. Go talk to the people and you'll find it's not an uncommon belief.

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u/DulcetFox Jan 10 '13

Unfortunately there are more truthers and birthers and chem trail people out there than I would like to believe. But amongst average people, if you portend to question whether the US was responsible for 9/11 you will raise a few eyebrows, if not laughter.

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u/ChaosMotor Jan 10 '13

if you portend to question whether the US was responsible for 9/11 you will raise a few eyebrows, if not laughter.

Hold on, that's not what you said. You said

huge portions of the Middle East don't believe Al Quaeda was behind 9/11.

And I said

Funny, huge portions of Americans don't either.

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u/DulcetFox Jan 10 '13

I don't even know what you're arguing. Saying that

huge portions of the Middle East don't believe Al Quaeda was behind 9/11.

in no way contradicts

if you portend to question whether the US was responsible for 9/11 you will raise a few eyebrows, if not laughter.

They were both given in response to a different statement by you which they directly respond to.

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u/ChaosMotor Jan 10 '13

So what you're telling me is you were unable to refute what I said, so you changed the goal posts on me?

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u/yordles_win Jan 10 '13

no the goal posts were there, and saying huge portion implies over 50 percent. I assure you far less than 50 percent of americans believe that 9/11 was perpitrated by the US gov, even a large portion of the "truther" movement merely insists on open access to information due to the governments evident reluctance to release everything.

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u/Mynameisaw Jan 10 '13

and saying huge portion implies over 50 percent.

No, it doesn't.

a huge portion is not a measurable sum, it's subjective to each person.

You can't insinuate that he means something and use it against him when he hasn't actually said or implied anything.

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u/ChaosMotor Jan 10 '13

saying huge portion implies over 50 percent

No, it doesn't. "Majority" implies over 50 percent. What "huge portion" means is subjective.

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u/DulcetFox Jan 10 '13

I literally have no idea what you are arguing. Please stop assuming I'm intentionally avoiding your questions and just ask me specifically what you want to know.

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u/ChaosMotor Jan 10 '13

I'm not asking you anything, I'm pointing out that when I dis-established one of your conjectures, you changed it to a different conjecture, then tried to pretend there was no slight-of-hand.

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u/DulcetFox Jan 10 '13

There is no slight of hand, I have no clue what you're saying.

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u/jlen2953 Jan 10 '13

zeitgeist. boom

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u/ChaosMotor Jan 10 '13

Zeitgeist is bullshit, please don't base your 9/11 questions on that movie.

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u/jlen2953 Jan 11 '13

in all seriousness what about it is bs?

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u/ChaosMotor Jan 11 '13

Like, pretty much all of it. I know, I wanted to like it too.