"I don’t figure that Muslims killed more than a 2 million people or so in political violence in the entire twentieth century, and that mainly in the Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988 and the Soviet and post-Soviet wars in Afghanistan"
Are you not including the Ottoman government's killing of an estimated one million or so Armenians in the early 20th century?
Why? Her supporters don't care about this sort of linguistic/historical subtlety. Indeed as far as I can tell, their reaction to the discussion about the "blood libel" expression is simply further entrenched solidarity with Palin against those nit-picking egghead liberal academics and a belief that if "the only thing one can criticize about her is her making a slip of the tongue, it proves how great she is" yada-yada.
Jacques Arquette says:
> You are a liberal nut job socialist bent on taking away ALL Freedoms from every day Americans.
Haha, do you seriously believe that Juan Cole is "bent on taking away all freedoms"? And you have the chutzpah to call HIM a nut? Wow. On what do you base that? Look in the mirror if you want to see a nut.
"I don’t figure that Muslims killed more than a 2 million people or so in political violence in the entire twentieth century, and that mainly in the Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988 and the Soviet and post-Soviet wars in Afghanistan"
Are you not including the Ottoman government's killing of an estimated one million or so Armenians in the early 20th century?
Why? Her supporters don't care about this sort of linguistic/historical subtlety. Indeed as far as I can tell, their reaction to the discussion about the "blood libel" expression is simply further entrenched solidarity with Palin against those nit-picking egghead liberal academics and a belief that if "the only thing one can criticize about her is her making a slip of the tongue, it proves how great she is" yada-yada.
Jacques Arquette says:
> You are a liberal nut job socialist bent on taking away ALL Freedoms from every day Americans.
Haha, do you seriously believe that Juan Cole is "bent on taking away all freedoms"? And you have the chutzpah to call HIM a nut? Wow. On what do you base that? Look in the mirror if you want to see a nut.