Man Already Knows Everything He Needs To Know About Muslims

[babylonsister]

Man Already Knows Everything He Needs To Know About Muslims

August 30, 2010 | ISSUE 46•35
Gentries made a conscious decision to stop learning anything new about the Muslim faith on May 22, 2005.


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.

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http://www.theonion.com/articles/man-already-knows-everything-he-needs-to-know-abou,17990/

[hobbit709]

1. Nothing like proclaiming your willful ignorance and stupidity to the world

Even if it is the Onion, there are plenty of real people with that attitude.

[Deep13]

3. +1

[boobooday]

2. I was torn as I was reading this

Until I scrolled down and saw your link. I was thinking, "this has to be the onion" and yet it sounds so much like actual Freeper rhetoric that I had to see the link to be sure.

[nuxvomica]

4. Recently, someone sent me a picture of Pres. Obama....

...crossing out amendments on the Bill of Rights. One amendment crossed out was the Fourth so I asked her what the Fourth Amendment says, in her own words, and she couldn't tell me. She didn't care. It was more important to know that Obama was threatening our rights. And she voted for him in 2008. :wtf:

[babylonsister]

6. Now that is the definition of a willfully ignorant person.

I find that very sad.

[nuxvomica]

7. And she is othewise a fairly intelligent person

But she went to the Beck rally last weekend! There's something very scary going on with these people.

[mmonk]

5. So when did the Onion decide to do

reality based reporting?

[LostinVA]

8. lol

[Bitwit1234]

9. So moving right along in this guys way of thinking DOES

that mean that the world knows everything they have to know about the United States when Bush INVADED A NEUTRAL COUNTRY in March of 2003. And is responsible for the murder of millions of innocent Iraqi citizens and the murder of over 4000 of our own.

I mean they don't need to know then that most of the people in this country did not approve of the INVASION OF A NEUTRAL COUNTRY. And that they protested it for the whole seven years. If this guy is correct the whole world knows that we are now aggressors and murderers.

[The_Commonist]

10. You know, the Onion isn't even really funny anymore.

In the video in this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x500210

There really, really, really is a guy who says "I learned everything I need to know about Islam on 9/11."

[Rocknrule]

11. I learned everything I needed to know about right-wingers

on April 19, 1995