More reasons why America sucks

In today's installment of "America has fewer IQ points per capita than any other country in the world", we go to Texas. Surprised? Not I.

There are plans to build a mosque in Katy, Texas, which is a bit outside of Houston. Some locals take offense to this and are afraid that it will turn the bustling town of Katy (population 11,000 some) into a hotbed of terrorism.

Amongst the objectors is a man who lives next to the property in question, and if the plans go ahead, will hold pig races on his land. Because obviously, only godless terror-loving Muslims would be upset at that.

How the hell do people justify this "Islam = terror" mindset? Try that about any other religious group and chances are you'll be a very lonely person very soon. And, yes, a few unsavory people did adhere to Islam. But, firstly, the 9/11 attacks were not in any way about religion; they were about politics and poverty and the stupid sense of American entitlement that we've been waving around since WWII. Secondly, let's just take 9/11 as an example. I know there've been other attacks, but the average American thinks "Muslim terror" and probably thinks of that September. There were 19 hijackers on that day. Let's go ahead and assume that there was a "support staff", so to speak, of ten for each hijacker. So that gives us 209 people involved. I mostly just made that up, but I think it's probably a decent estimate.

Conservative estimates put the number of people who practice Islam at about .7 billion around the world, with about 1 million of them in the US (cite). Again, those are conservative numbers, and the actual ones are probably quite a bit higher. Regardless, even with the lowest numbers, that would mean that those 209 people coordinating the 9/11 attacks represent an absurdly tiny percentage of a hugely popular religion.

So forgive me if I'm missing something, but I personally think that the people in Katy aren't afraid of terrorism; they're just bigoted idiots.