On Fri, 09 Jan 2015 17:45:16 -0500, ingo wrote:

> in news:54b00564$1@news.povray.org Jim Henderson wrote:
> 
>> we don't feel the need to apologise
> 
> Günter Wallraff, (re)read his works and watch his movies (some of them
> are on youtube) and apologize to ... maybe you neighbour.

Well, I wasn't saying *I* don't.  I was making the point that there are 
large groups of people in the US who want every Muslim on the planet to 
apologise for the extremists who say they follow Islam, but at the same 
time, those same people don't think they owe anyone an apology of a 
similar sort for the terrible things done by people who say they act on 
their behalf.

It's a very self-centered view of the world, where the "self" isn't 
responsible for anything other people do, but everyone else is 
responsible for the things others do.

Jim


-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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