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Hey guys. This is the first post I'm gonna do in a series of posts ranting about popular political rhetoric I've seen on the internet. This is an opinion I see espoused by almost EVERYONE on the web, and is also very prominent in regions such as the American south, New York, New Jersey, and in areas of Europe. And the opinion is THIS:

Man, dem-dem Muslims is just a buncha dayum savages! I say... we just NUKE the whole mi'le ea'! Put an en' t' THAT problem right dere, mayun! Dey all up in dere with... ISIS! An'-an' uh.. the TALIBAN! An' a-al-al... uh... Al QAEDA! An' dey all up in dere plottin 'gainst Amurica! An' every single ONE of dem Muslims HATES Amurica an' wants to see it BURN, so I say WE go over DERE and DESTROY THEM FIRST!!

Okay... where do I begin? I guess I'll attack the first point directly. You do realize that if we nuked an area of the world that large, that the rest of the world is gonna get harmed by the radiation that emerges from those warheads, right? Not to mention, the Middle East isn't the only place with Muslims in it. There are also significant Muslim populations in Asia and the Pacific. Do you wanna bomb those places too? Not to mention, I've heard that there are a lot of Muslims living in Dearborn, Michigan. Do you wanna nuke Dearborn, Michigan? But I honestly think the big problem is here is the blatant disregard for human life, the idea that just because there are some radicals and extremists in this part of the world, we should just destroy it. America honestly doesn't have the nicest people in it, at least in my opinion. If we started bombing places just because there are some scumbags there, the middle east wouldn't be #1 on my list of places to bomb. (Though for the record, I would never bomb anyplace just because there are some scumbags there.) But no, they just think that we should just destroy that region of the world, including all the good people. Okay to be fair, the people who espouse this position probably believe that there are NO good Muslims! There are no Muslims that DON'T want to hurt the west. They're just ALL terrorists, from the youngest newborn to the oldest man with no teeth and rolling around in a wheelchair, they all just DESPISE the west and wanna DESTROY it. ALL OF THEM. EVERY SINGLE ONE! Because that's not... y'know... close-minded at all.  Not to mention, America used to be pretty bad, too. Imagine if there was a technologically superior country many years ago that looked at America and said to themselves: "Look at these Americans! They've got slavery, they don't let their women vote, they don't allow gays to get married, look at them! They're horrible, evil, scum! We should just GET RID OF 'EM!!" Then we never would have gotten the chance to grow and improve. I'm not saying that we're the best country on Earth. (Because trust me, we're far from it.) But we've made a lot of progress.

Like I've said, this opinion is very prevalent in the American south, and I think that's obvious to everyone, because they're just a bunch of crazy, regressive morons. (But if you're from the south and don't think this, then this doesn't apply to you. ) I also said that this opinion is popular on the internet. Once again, I think that's pretty obvious because THEY are just a bunch of barbaric, ruthless, homicidal, psychopathic wastes of life. (Though I feel like that's putting it very very very VERY mildly. ) But why is this position so prevalent in areas like New York, New Jersey, and regions of Europe? Well, for New York, I'd say it's probably because they directly witnessed the September 11th attacks, so it's probably a more emotional experience for them. As for New Jersey, they always just like to copy what New York is doing and act like they're better. (Even though they aren't.) And finally, why is this position also so popular in Europe? That I think is pretty easy to explain. Europe is pretty atheistic, and even though I am an atheist, one thing I don't like about the atheist community is that they are VERY Islamophobic. Even the most progressive ones say some pretty Islamophobic stuff. They're so Islamophobic, that they're just as, if not sometimes MORE, Islamophobic as the American south! Like, seriously...  

Another problem I have with this is the blatant hypocrisy in this statement. When you ask people why they wanna do this, they say: "Muslims are VIOLENT! Muslims just wanna KILL US ALL!!" And I think to myself: "Okay, then how the heck are YOU any different? You think we should just kill an entire group of people because they want to quote-on-quote 'kill us all?' Then by your OWN logic, YOU should die!" (Though I think it's preposterous to kill people who say this, no matter how crazy it is. ) Also, you wanna know how many Muslims there are in the world? According to a study from 2015 I found, 1.8 billion. (Or just over 24% of the world's population) So... you wanna kill 24% of the world's population? That is about ONE HUNDRED AND SIX TIMES the amount of people that died in the Holocaust! So you're basically advocating that your country becomes a hundred and SIX TIMES WORSE, MORE BARBARIC, MORE GENOCIDAL, MORE CORRUPT, AND MORE PSYCHOPATHIC THAN ADOLF HITLER!! This isn't just a BAD idea! This is a PHENOMENALLY BAD IDEA!! And y'know what's worse? There are more places than just the US who have interest in the middle east. China and Russia ALSO have interests in the middle east. If you start bombing those regions, then you're gonna aggravate Russia and China, POSSIBLY leading to another world war, and maybe even the EXTINCTION of the HUMAN RACE! NO! BAD IDEA!! INCREDIBLY BAD IDEA!! 

And that's all I have to say for this blog post. Just wait until tomorrow, where I'll debunk the inconsistent rhetoric of the alt-right!