which phase, the open and accepting part or the shutting down part?
even with a p of .05, i don't think this is true, but thanks for at least trying to use a scientific approach
isis has turned half a country into extremists?
and all i'm addressing is your "statistically significant" comment
there's a huge push to move the p value for APA and most scientific rigor up from .05 higher, as well, because of the reproducibility and data integrity problems currently plaguing science
but given even the bare minimum threshold, and assuming normal distribution (which i guess you don't), you'd be claiming there are 90 million extremist muslims in the world
that's more than the entire population of egypt, the most populous country in the region
or of the ~400 MM people living in the 16 "middle east" countries a little over one in five is a terrorist
bold claim, i'd love to see you back it up
Cite your sources or admit you're making flippant, baldly false claims.
If this idiot and his ilk drawing hundreds of thousands of followers and taking over half of the country (or if you would prefer, flying five hijacked plans full of innocent civilians into the ground at high rates of speed, beheadings, bombings, blowing up four year old kids cheering on their father in a road race, etc., etc., etc.) are any indication, a statistically significant portion of them engage in highly irregular behavior.
When ish like this happens, how many times have you instinctively thought the perpetrator was Amish?
When you hear of a serial killer, you "instinctively" think the perpetrator is white guy. You don't see anybody say "White guys themselves must put an end to this culture of killing women and sauteing their brains in a white wine sauce. No one else can do it for them."
When you hear of a serial killer, you "instinctively" think the perpetrator is white guy. You don't see anybody say "White guys themselves must put an end to this culture of killing women and sauteing their brains in a white wine sauce. No one else can do it for them."
except serial killers are almost always lone wolves. not really analogous. when the US was going through the civil rights movement, it was about changing a culture, not simply killing/detaining the leaders of the KKK
pretty amazing people are blaming the victim and undermining the value of journalists in these areas. the flow of free, unfettered information is one of the few things that might lead to change in this region.
Keep your little [straw] man in your pants, jh. I have said nothing along the lines of religious extremism not posing a thread. It does. A terrifying one. Just not a statistically significant one, as you claimed.
Foley was kidnapped and escaped death in Libya 3 years ago. So he jumps right back into the fire. No one is saying what these journalists do isn't valued. I'm just saying their lives are more valuable. It's a calling and he's doing what he wants. Fine. But at what point do we ask who's actually responsible for him being in this situation? But you're kidding yourself if you think ISIS or al-Queda feel pressured in some way by exposure. It's what they want. These morons have been fighting over dumb shit for thousands of years. Another photo or story isn't going to change that.
Fox News' take...the president didn't threaten to bring them to justice which fake tits McGee found repulsive and legs McMr.Potatohead lips was outraged that he didn't wear tie. Go fuck yourselves. That guy died doing something that none of you would even contemplate doing, journalism.
Keep your little [straw] man in your pants, jh. I have said nothing along the lines of religious extremism not posing a threat. It does. A terrifying one. Just not a statistically significant one, as you claimed.
How about your good explanation for why this terrifying threat seems to repeat itself, so often and in so many different places? By definition, "extremism" needs to be outside the mainstream. It seems to me that jihad seems to have no trouble find fertile soil in a heck of a lot of countries (even ours, see Hassan, Major). Hypertechnical, semantic arguments aside, it wouldn't hurt to hear from of the more moderate voices condemning some of their crazy. You don't see rednecks from Kentucky dance in the street after school shootings the way you see celebrations after 9/11, etc.