Dave Smith

The problem is jihadism, Islamism, Islamic extremism, Islamofascism, militant Islam, or whatever words you want to use to describe the belligerence and triumphal lunacy of those who take the most pernicious doctrines of Islam too seriously.

No, that's right.

And of course, this is, again, it's just so dumb.

It's just a giant assertion.

And then you just, what, you came up with seven, it's literally like Mark Levin, like you sound like a nine-year-old playing with action figures.

Like you just came up with every word you can.

It's Islamofascism, Islamism, Islamic terror, Islamic this.

And he goes, all you've left me with in this paragraph is the problem isn't Israel, the problem is them.

That's all you've said.

Okay.

I mean, by the way, I'm not nearly, there's an asymmetry as always is the case here.

Cause I'm not making the equal opposite point of Sam Harris.

Like I would never say like the problem has not, the problem in the middle East is only Israel and has nothing to do with radical Islam.

And obviously there's elements of all of these things that these are the dynamics of the region.

And yes, of course there's problems on all sides.

Um,

But to pretend that the military occupation has nothing to do with what's going on here, which has nothing to do with the issue, is absurd.

It's an absurd assertion that you could not defend in a debate.

And that's why you don't want to have the debate.

It's easy to write a paragraph that essentially just says, my side good, your side bad.