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From: Ron Dean <rondean-noreply@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: CONTRARY EVIDENCE (WASRe: Evide)nce!
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:29:18 -0400
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Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
> On 2024-03-28 16:52:50 +0000, Mark Isaak said:
> 
>> On 3/26/24 10:29 AM, Ron Dean wrote:
>>> Mark Isaak wrote:
>>>> On 3/25/24 10:26 AM, Ron Dean wrote:
>>>>> Mark Isaak wrote:
>>>>>> On 3/23/24 4:31 PM, *Hemidactylus* wrote:
>>>>>>> Ron Dean <rondean-noreply@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Mark Isaak wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [snip
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> And what about people for whom theism is their greatest 
>>>>>>>>> motivator, such
>>>>>>>>> as Obama bin Laden? Cynicism seems a rational response.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Are you suggesting that Obama bin Laden is typical of Islam? If so,
>>>>>>>> you're probably right.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My apologies to Mark as I just Chez Watted this without realizing 
>>>>>>> Mark had
>>>>>>> originally posted Osama bin Laden and in Ron Dean’s reply Mark’s 
>>>>>>> spelling
>>>>>>> morphed to Obama bin Laden matching Ron Dean’s spelling. I wonder 
>>>>>>> what that
>>>>>>> indicates about Ron Dean…
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Even without the typo, Ron's reply shows that he is grossly 
>>>>>> bigoted against Arabs and Moslems. The typo suggests that Blacks 
>>>>>> and Democrats may be added to the list.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Here you are so unfair.  It's easy to make accusations and charges 
>>>>> without even attempting to support them. This in and of itself 
>>>>> demonstrates your extreme bias and hatred of anyone with a
>>>>> point of view, opinion or belief different from yours.
>>>>
>>>> The support for your bigotry against Moslems is in your own post, 
>>>> and that bigotry in turn is support for a suggestion of further 
>>>> bigotry. I must admit that I had not considered the intervention of 
>>>> a spell-checker. I have never known a spell-checker, uninvited, to 
>>>> alter text that the user did not type himself.
>>>>
>>> I asked a question. "Are you suggesting that Osama bin Laden is 
>>> typical of Islam? If so (if you confirmed) you are probably right". 
>>> If you failed. I placed the burden on you! (Note here I defeated my 
>>> spell-checker)
>>
>> Do you honestly not recognize the overt bigotry in what you just 
>> repeated? It is really extremely gross and unforgivable.
> 
> All the Muslims that I know (all highly educated women, at the moment) 
> are perfectly decent people. All of them would be very insulted to be 
> described as typical of Osama Ben Laden. None of them wear veils. A few 
> years ago there was a student who did wear a veil, but that was only in 
> her second when her husband came to join the institute. In her first 
> year she didn't, and was perfectly happy to have her photo taken (by me) 
> for a seminar series that my wife was organizing. She likewise had 
> nothing in common with Osama Ben Laden.
> 
This no doubt is typical of most Muslin people.