Quote:notwithstanding the BS that both you and Soren were trying on that you can "pick out" the muslims simply by looking at them
notice the barricade? Notice any suspiciously "muslim" looking people?
Sure, I can pick out two of them, simply by looking at them. Fancy that.
polite_gandalf wrote on Mar 11
th, 2015 at 11:08am:
the word was *WILLING* to form the line. Soren made the baseless claim that 20 formed the line and the rest "declined" to join. The BS narrative he is trying to spin was that there was an extraordinary small number of muslims willing to "stick their neck out" and make this gesture. The TOI article clearly explains what happened, and why Soren's narrative is BS - a decision was made to form a small symbolic line of about 20 people for the cameras. Behind that, behind the police barricade was a *SECOND* line of hundreds of muslims and also some non-muslims. The decision to make the two lines was for logistical and security concerns - *NOT* because only 20 were willing to form a ring. Clearly hundreds of muslims turned up wanting to make a ring. But of course you would know all this if you bothered to read the TOI article I keep referencing.
So don't strawman me and say that I claimed there were more than 20 people in that first line.
Gandalf I am yet to see any photos of this second line of hundreds of Muslims. Only you are talking about the first line/second line thing. We are yet to see any decent evidence of any line of hundreds of Muslims.
Quote:I also never persisted in defending the "ring" story - though I continue to think it is the height of petty-mindedness to think that such a detail matters.
Do you defend the barricade sandwich story? When the entire story falls apart because all the details are either wrong or reflect badly on Muslims, it does start to matter. When it becomes a demonstration of how few Muslims will come out to defend Jews from Muslim terrorists (and try to hijack a show of solidarity by non-Muslims and turn it into an Islamophobia Islamic victimhood protest), compared to the number of Muslims that will turn up to the funeral of the terrorist, it matters. The spin entirely contradicts the reality.
Quote:I am assuming inaccurate reports from a news article don't come from sinister muslims because there is no evidence that it did.
If I countered by assuming they did not come from non-Muslims because I have no evidence on which to make such a claim, would that be a valid rebuttal?
Quote:Do I really have to explain to you the most basic principle of burden of proof?
Yes, please explain how you stating that you know that none of the Muslims involved were responsible for the lies places the burden of proof on others.