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Re:I made my son cannabis cookies. They changed his life by darpa_escapee on Sunday January 08, 2017 @01:30PM (#13351139)
> Give me a break. I've never heard a more hyperbolic statement even from diehard warmongers.

There are sizable portions of the US and Europe that believe muslims are terrorist sympathizers who want to enact Sharia law. To them terrorists, immigrants and muslims are existential threats: they want to blow them up, take their jobs and run their lives and government.

> There is no conceivable way that terrorists threaten our national existence/security.

I agree.

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Re:I made my son cannabis cookies. They changed his life by morgante on Sunday January 08, 2017 @02:19PM (#13351389)
> There are sizable portions of the US and Europe that believe muslims are terrorist sympathizers who want to enact Sharia law.

Sure, and there are millions of people who believe all sorts of nutty things. Millions of people believe that stars predict the future or that aliens regularly abduct people. That doesn't mean we should legitimize these beliefs.

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Re:I made my son cannabis cookies. They changed his life by darpa_escapee on Sunday January 08, 2017 @04:35PM (#13352161)
Acknowledging that a bogeyman exists as a bogeyman doesn't legitimize the belief that a bogeyman is real.
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Re:I made my son cannabis cookies. They changed his life by morgante on Sunday January 08, 2017 @10:49PM (#13353870)
It does if you refer to the bogeyman without pointing out that it's false. You said terrorists are an existential threat, not that some (crazy) people think they are.
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