Your request for a true/false answer makes this a deliciously wicked tug of war between logic and what you would “really” like to communicate. I will start the cauldron bubbling by saying the logical answer to your questions is “True”.
I agree with Tom that the logical answer is "True." However, this does feel sort of like a "Do you still beat your wife?" kind of construction in its ambiguous use of language. To me the statement sorely needs a quantifier. "Some muslims..." would be a more accurate assertion, because as it stands one does wonder, are we talking about all muslims, or a muslim majority, or what?
It would also be nice if voices for a moderate muslim majority would stand up and say: The assertion is False because we reject any self-proclamtion of muslim identity on the part of extremists who would perpetrate acts of terror against innocents. I haven't heard any such outcry, but maybe I just haven't been paying attention.
Your request for a true/false answer makes this a deliciously wicked tug of war between logic and what you would “really” like to communicate. I will start the cauldron bubbling by saying the logical answer to your questions is “True”.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Tom that the logical answer is "True." However, this does feel sort of like a "Do you still beat your wife?" kind of construction in its ambiguous use of language. To me the statement sorely needs a quantifier. "Some muslims..." would be a more accurate assertion, because as it stands one does wonder, are we talking about all muslims, or a muslim majority, or what?
ReplyDeleteIt would also be nice if voices for a moderate muslim majority would stand up and say: The assertion is False because we reject any self-proclamtion of muslim identity on the part of extremists who would perpetrate acts of terror against innocents. I haven't heard any such outcry, but maybe I just haven't been paying attention.