Muslim Concensus
A friend just got a call from his mom:
mom: "they were evacuating the newspaper building because the Muslims called in a bomb threat."
kcin: "which Muslims?"
mom: "oh, you know...the uh, international Muslim community...they're upset because the newspaper published--"
kcin: "so the international Muslim community issued a bomb threat?"
Every so often I'll read a similarly sweeping generalization about what "the muslims" believe or said. It's pretty amazing to me that the Sunni, Shia, Wahabbi, Kurds, Persians, Druze, Lebanese, Pashtun, Fula, Nawayath, Reguibat, Beni Hassan, Madan, Baloch, Ingush, Hausa, Tajakant, Hui, Tekna, Berbers, Awans, Nogais, Al Murrah, Kabard, Gorani, Uyghur, Baggara, Torbesh, Pomaks, Bosniaks, Burig, Cham, Dungan, Sufi, and Jaloudi can stop shooting at each other (or their nonmuslim neighbors) long enough to achieve Muslim Consensus and issue these unified declarations.
Given the agreement and unity that we see between Christians, Catholics, Protestants, Presbyterians, Jehovah's Witnesses, Northern Baptists, Southern Baptists, Lutherans, Anglicans, Anabaptists, Arminianists, Covenanters, Calvinists, Benedictines, Eastern Orthodox, Adventists, Nestorians, Missouri Synod Lutherans, Pentecostals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, Lukumí, Gnostics, and that dude who yells "YOSHUAAAAA" on the lawn at the University of Arizona I suppose it's an entirely reasonable assumption.
(See Emo Phillips for further reading.)
mom: "they were evacuating the newspaper building because the Muslims called in a bomb threat."
kcin: "which Muslims?"
mom: "oh, you know...the uh, international Muslim community...they're upset because the newspaper published--"
kcin: "so the international Muslim community issued a bomb threat?"
Every so often I'll read a similarly sweeping generalization about what "the muslims" believe or said. It's pretty amazing to me that the Sunni, Shia, Wahabbi, Kurds, Persians, Druze, Lebanese, Pashtun, Fula, Nawayath, Reguibat, Beni Hassan, Madan, Baloch, Ingush, Hausa, Tajakant, Hui, Tekna, Berbers, Awans, Nogais, Al Murrah, Kabard, Gorani, Uyghur, Baggara, Torbesh, Pomaks, Bosniaks, Burig, Cham, Dungan, Sufi, and Jaloudi can stop shooting at each other (or their nonmuslim neighbors) long enough to achieve Muslim Consensus and issue these unified declarations.
Given the agreement and unity that we see between Christians, Catholics, Protestants, Presbyterians, Jehovah's Witnesses, Northern Baptists, Southern Baptists, Lutherans, Anglicans, Anabaptists, Arminianists, Covenanters, Calvinists, Benedictines, Eastern Orthodox, Adventists, Nestorians, Missouri Synod Lutherans, Pentecostals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, Lukumí, Gnostics, and that dude who yells "YOSHUAAAAA" on the lawn at the University of Arizona I suppose it's an entirely reasonable assumption.
(See Emo Phillips for further reading.)