Man Already Knows Everything He Needs To Know About Muslims

[Lkr]

SALINA, KS—Local man Scott Gentries told reporters Wednesday that his deliberately limited grasp of Islamic history and culture was still more than sufficient to shape his views of the entire Muslim world.

 

Gentries, 48, said he had absolutely no interest in exposing himself to further knowledge of Islamic civilization or putting his sweeping opinions into a broader context of any kind, and confirmed he was "perfectly happy" to make a handful of emotionally charged words the basis of his mistrust toward all members of the world's second-largest religion.

"I learned all that really matters about the Muslim faith on 9/11," Gentries said in reference to the terrorist attacks on the United States undertaken by 19 of Islam's approximately 1.6 billion practitioners. "What more do I need to know to stigmatize Muslims everywhere as inherently violent radicals?"

 

"And now they want to build a mosque at Ground Zero," continued Gentries, eliminating any distinction between the 9/11 hijackers and Muslims in general. "No, I won't examine the accuracy of that statement, but yes, I will allow myself to be outraged by it and use it as evidence of these people's universal callousness toward Americans who lost loved ones when the Twin Towers fell."

 

"Even though I am not one of those people," he added.

When told that the proposed "Ground Zero mosque" is actually a community center two blocks north of the site that would include, in addition to a public prayer space, a 500-seat auditorium, a restaurant, and athletic facilities, Gentries shook his head and said, "I know all I'm going to let myself know."

 

Gentries explained that it "didn't take long" to find out as much about the tenets of Islam as he needed to. He said he knew Muslims stoned their women for committing adultery, trained for terrorist attacks at fundamentalist madrassas, and believed in jihad, which Gentries described as the thing they used to justify killing infidels.

 

"All Muslims are at war with America, and I will resist any attempt to challenge that assertion with potentially illuminating facts," said Gentries, who threatened to leave the room if presented with the number of Muslims who live peacefully in the United States, serve in the country's armed forces, or were victims themselves of the 9/11 attacks. "Period."

 

"If you don't believe me, wait until they put your wife in a burka," Gentries continued in reference to the face-and-body-covering worn by a small minority of Muslim women and banned in the universities of Turkey, Tunisia, and Syria. "Or worse, a rape camp. That's right: For reasons I am content being totally unable to articulate, I am choosing to associate Muslims with rape camps."

 

Over the past decade, Gentries said he has taken pains to avoid personal interactions or media that might have the potential to compromise his point of view. He told reporters that the closest he had come to confronting a contrary standpoint was tuning in to the first few seconds of an interview with a moderate Muslim cleric before hastily turning off the television.

 

"I almost gave in and listened to that guy defend Islam with words I didn't want to hear," Gentries said. "But then I remembered how much easier it is to live in a world of black-and-white in which I can assign the label of 'other' to someone and use him as a vessel for all my fears and insecurities."

 

Added Gentries, "That really put things back into perspective."

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:rofl:

 

Reminded me of someone here

[Cobb]

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:rofl:

 

Reminded me of someone here

[Guru]

Pretty sure he is referring to ECN lol.

Funniest part of this article is the guy is from Kansas.

[Poe]

...this is news?

[fish7718]

Yes Lkr because the first thing that came to everyones mind when the WTC got knocked down was building a mosque. I don't agree with the moron but there are more practical places to build it.

[Lkr]

Yes Lkr because the first thing that came to everyones mind when the WTC got knocked down was building a mosque. I don't agree with the moron but there are more practical places to build it.

what?

 

you guys seriously need to learn to look at sources

[fish7718]

I'd be opossed to be buidling a McDonald's there as well, and a church, and a synagogue.

[His Greatness]

It's satire, Fish. You missed the entire point.

[Real Deal]

I'm going to be completely honest: I read the entire thing, and didn't even look at the source, and I believed it to be a true article. Guy is from Kansas? Sure he is...wouldn't surprise me one bit.

 

The Onion does a great job writing hilarious articles that, really, make little to no sense...but this one is very believable.

[Poe]

...this is news?

 

Nevermind. Didn't read the whole article or look at where it came from.

[Lkr]

I'm going to be completely honest: I read the entire thing, and didn't even look at the source, and I believed it to be a true article. Guy is from Kansas? Sure he is...wouldn't surprise me one bit.

 

The Onion does a great job writing hilarious articles that, really, make little to no sense...but this one is very believable.

The sad part about this article is that it is believable and there are people out there like this.

[Flash]

Every religion/country has extremists. I'm sure if I posted the same type of thing here about Muslims or people in the Middle East it wouldn't be received this easily.

Edited September 1, 2010 by Flash