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Jeremy Henzell-Thomas of The American Muslim deplored the petition as one of "these mechanical knee-jerk reactions [which] are gifts to those who seek every opportunity to decry Islam and ridicule Muslims and can only exacerbate a situation in which Muslims and the Western media seem to be locked in an ever-descending spiral of ignorance and ...
3 "Knee-jerk" 3 comments. 4 liberal = libertine. 4 comments. 5 Discrepancies? 6 comments. 6 POV essay cut from article. 10 comments. 7 removal of section. 6 comments.
The Government should review legislation that restricts protest based on “knee-jerk public opinion”, a think tank has said. Cross-party think tank Demos said it had found “overwhelming ...
Knee-jerk – Monosynaptic reflex; Loaded language – Rhetoric used to influence an audience; Plausible deniability – Ability to deny responsibility; Poisoning the well – Type of informal fallacy; Political correctness – Measures to avoid offense or disadvantage; Incitement to ethnic or racial hatred – Criminal offence in several countries
If conservative Missouri legislators were willing to repeal self-defense standards and modify open carry laws, would progressives or liberals be willing to step up? | Opinion
The [Qur'anic] text changed from the very first moment - that is, when the Prophet recited it at the moment of its revelation - from its existence as a divine text (nass ilahi), and became something understandable, a human text (nass insani), because it changed from revelation to interpretation (li-annahu tahawwala min al-tanzil ila al-ta'wil ...
hi guys, i'm in brazil at the moment (and having a lovely time, thanks for asking) and i've been told, reasonably reliably, that the richest 1% of brazillians have more than the bottom 50% combined. obviously when i heard this, i went into knee-jerk liberal shock ("why pedro, thats simply scandalous!") but then i got thinking (an event in ...
Like the knee jerk reflex, the Lazarus sign is an example of a reflex mediated by a reflex arc—a neural pathway which passes via the spinal column but not through the brain. As a consequence, the movement is possible in brain-dead patients whose organs have been kept functioning by life-support machines , precluding the use of complex ...