tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post113937173147807481..comments2023-11-03T08:25:59.048-07:00Comments on The Enlightenment Project: Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12587322265256780784noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-1139544645272313222006-02-09T20:10:00.000-08:002006-02-09T20:10:00.000-08:00Well then we have to do the experiment because it'...Well then we have to do the experiment because it's an empirical question that our speculation won't answer and no one has done the experiment yet. No one has seriously offered houses with white picket fences. But I would bet: set up those schools and see if parents prefer to send their kids to the madrassa where they will memorize the Koran and learn to be suicide bombers or the prep school Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12587322265256780784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-1139539516942597032006-02-09T18:45:00.000-08:002006-02-09T18:45:00.000-08:00Let me be clear. I wasn't, in my previous post, a...Let me be clear. I wasn't, in my previous post, attempting to speak to the behavior of <I>all</I> Muslims. Just to the behavior of those who wish to wage jihad. Those who were recently quoted as having said, if only we had gotten Salman Rushdie, maybe that cartoonist would have known better than to have drawn what he did. I don't believe that a person who sincerely believes in concepts like Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-1139538300998804902006-02-09T18:25:00.000-08:002006-02-09T18:25:00.000-08:00(1) These guys were both self-selected and careful...(1) These guys were both self-selected and carefully screened. (2) We also don't know how many moles, from among the self-selected and screened were seduced by crass materialism and melted into the American landscape. (3) You ignore info about the vast majority of Muslim immigrants who aren't self-selected or screened.<BR/><BR/>So the inference you're making from this small and skewed sample is: Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12587322265256780784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-1139530315198501292006-02-09T16:11:00.000-08:002006-02-09T16:11:00.000-08:00I guess I just don't have as much faith as you do ...I guess I just don't have as much faith as you do in the ability of material goods to solve these issues. If the fruits of America's economic machine really were capable of soothing the savage breast, then the 9/11 hijackers, at some point during their time living as moles in this country, would have been seduced by our streets paved with gold. <BR/><BR/>Surely some of them would have said -- "Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-1139518550895984342006-02-09T12:55:00.000-08:002006-02-09T12:55:00.000-08:00David Brooks has a reflection on the cartoon wars ...<A HREF="http://select.nytimes.com/2006/02/09/opinion/09brooks.html?hp" REL="nofollow">David Brooks</A> has a reflection on the cartoon wars and the Clash of Civilizations today, though I don't agree with him that "democracy brings conversion." The Athenians had a fine democracy--for male citizens, less than 20% of the population--but it didn't stop them from conducting gratuitous wars with the Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12587322265256780784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-1139495674709934682006-02-09T06:34:00.000-08:002006-02-09T06:34:00.000-08:00The question I keep asking -- and which I have yet...The question I keep asking -- and which I have yet to see anyone in the media ask -- is why no one has questioned why American society has not responded to similiar offenses in similar ways. How have we managed to evolve beyond that, and how can we help the Middle East evolve beyond that?<BR/><BR/>Yes, I've seen mentions of the Virgin Mary made of dung that was exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com