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Moral Equivalence Award

Thanks to Best of the Web for this catch.

...when the American press talks about suicide bombers, Muslims become upset for the same reason you would be upset if your son died trying to save a drowning child," Baugh said. "Your son sacrificed his life for another. If someone walked up to you and said, "I"m sorry about your son committing suicide," you'd probably want to punch them."

If I were a Muslim, I'd be insulted by this statement--it implies that I'm an irrational idiot. Let's see, by this logic, "risking life" = "volitional suicide," and "saving drowning person" = "murdering innocent people."

And they wonder why we don't take them seriously.

Posted by Rand Simberg at February 19, 2002 03:34 PM
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