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In reply to the discussion: Ugh, DU. The anti-Muslim sentiment here is getting to me. [View all]bhikkhu
(10,732 posts)the same as the vast majority of christians wouldn't kill over an insult.
In both cases, the numbers who would talk trash and threaten to kill or advocate killing is larger, but even that's a small majority.
The vast majority of people in the world, seeing something like the "innocence of islam" movie, or a klan rally, or a fundamentalist rant, or whatever variety of hate, just think "ah, more of this again - lets go home and get something to eat", or "what foolishness - no good ever comes from stirring up trouble", or "won't they ever learn?", or some variety of that...
The RW would like to convince people that the world is a big scary dangerous place full of evil crazy people. Most people are good, generous, honest, hard-working, etc, - like us.