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Excellent paper. Thanks for diarying it, GH!

Kuper could have added that among these estimated 16 million European "Muslims", many of them are Muslims the same way a majority of French are Catholic, i.e. born from Muslim parents, but not practising Muslims.

"Dieu se rit des hommes qui se plaignent des conséquences alors qu'ils en chérissent les causes" Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

by Melanchthon on Thu Nov 15th, 2007 at 09:24:26 AM EST
He more or less implies it by describing them as "nominal Muslims".
by Gag Halfrunt on Thu Nov 15th, 2007 at 10:19:21 AM EST
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This is really the nub of it.

The problem isn't with Islam, it's with superstitious people, in particular of the religious sort.

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant

by redstar on Thu Nov 15th, 2007 at 10:38:46 AM EST
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