overnegation again

[Mark Mandel]

Another case of overnegation, this time pretty disgusting: a blog post
titled "The Myth that not all Muslims are
Terrorists"<http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2010/09/the_myth_that_not_all_muslims_are_terrorists.html>.
This one has an extra twist, because while semantically it's the opposite
of what the writer intended, what it implies about the author's views is
far more accurate than what he wanted it to say. The blog itself (which I
looked at because of a folk
etymology<http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2013/01/muslims_did_not_invent_algebra_1.html#comment-787036370>)
is virulently anti-Islam. I don't want to quote from it, but if you go to the
post in question<http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2010/09/the_myth_that_not_all_muslims_are_terrorists.html>you
will see more than enough evidence.

Mark, now going to wash his hands

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