freediver wrote on May 8
th, 2019 at 7:22pm:
If I said all Nazis support genocide, would that imply Nazis are also a mindless collective?
Not necessarily, because in this case you are talking about a rational cognitive process to arrive at that belief - given what Nazis are and what they believe. You are not a nazi if you don't hate non-whites and support violence to keep them excluded from white culture/society. In this modern day world of multiculturalism in the west, it is reasonable to assume this would necessitate genocide. This is the defining characteristic of being a nazi. But this is not arrived at "mindlessly" or "collectively" - genocide would be assessed as a necessary strategy by the nazi - logically and rationally.
Genocide for muslims on the other hand, is not a rational belief to arrive at given the core tenets (ie the 5 pillars). You arrive at that conclusion on the simplistic logic that Muhammad did it, therefore all muslims must blindly accept that behaviour as good and proper. It singularly denies the muslim any agency or individual thought processes of his/her own to assess things like 'how does supporting genocide relate to the 5 pillars' (it doesn't), 'even if Muhammad was the greatest example, does that necessarily require blindly supporting everything he did? 'why shouldn't the context of 7th century arabia be factored in'? 'Is what Muhammad allegedly did genocide anyway (clearly no) - 'did he even do it in the first place' (even if its a minority who don't believe he did it, there undeniably are some who don't, therefore this point alone destroys your claim).
These most basic cognitive processes you singularly deny muslims, while ascribing to muslims the most insendiary smear you could possibly think of in our current culture - that of a genocide supporter. Clearly done with the express intention to inflame and provoke the discussion to its worst, base form.