If it turns out that these Somali residents were, for the most part, NOT conservative Muslims, I’ll eat my words. But I’d put money on the possibility that, when the information about the interviews finally comes out, we find that the common response was, “She’s a woman, she probably had it coming to her.”

ST:
I call flat out BS on both excuses. If what Jamal is saying is true in that these people’s only understandings with authority were of a totalitarian government like Somalia’s, then it stands to reason that they came here to the US from Somalia in order to escape that way of life and make a better life here, because they know America is nothing like Somalia.

Exactly. People will find a reason to excuse anything, won’t they?

Steve would say that he would “reason” with these fellows freaks of nature.

Pacifism as Dennis Prager argues is dangerous. It is the belief in non-violence at “all” times and it affects people around you. Where as vegetarianism only affects your own self so Dennis Prager put pacifism way below vegetarianism on the chart of harmful beliefs.

It is ok to try to take the peaceful route – but that would NOT be pacifism. That is just the belief in “trying” to take a peaceful route. But to not recognize evil when you see it – and then act with force when necessary to save people (sometimes millions of people) is some of the most harmful acts you can take – and it is self-centered.

Sometimes people just do not care to see what is happening in front of them. Add some social pressure and it is even more likely they will not see it.