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February 02, 2006

Take the Citizenship Test

Clyde Wilson has developed a handy, 40-question test "designed to test your qualifications as a citizen." Try it out and see how you do.

The only two questions where I wavered are 24 and 25.

As to number 24, I'm really not familiar enough with Islam to know whether it's a naturally violent or peaceful religion. Perhaps "Chemical Ali" can enlighten me here. I would say, however, that since the vast majority of Muslims are peaceful people, being a Muslim is not a sufficient condition for being a terrorist any more than being a Christian was a sufficient condition for being a Crusader.

Number 25, I think, should be broken into 2 parts. It is clear that all religions are not similar. Some, for example, worship God, while others worship Satan--a big difference. On the other hand, all religions should be tolerated unless their leaders are specifically causing their followers to violate others' rights, and even here we get into "iffy" territory.

Still, overall it's an excellent test. Expect your average "conservative" or "liberal" to score highly on this and to denouce as a "bad citizen" anyone who doesn't. Just for fun, I went back and answered the questions as I thought a conservative and a liberal would. Both came out with scores over 20, the conservative scoring higher only because he trusts the government more now since it's run by Republicans and the liberal trusts it less because it's run by Republicans. Ten years ago some of the answers would have been reversed.

Posted by Mike Tennant at February 2, 2006 02:30 PM

Comments

Islam is no more (inherently) violence prone than any other religious belief system. It has been co-opted by Islamist in some cases just as the other religious have.
The ordinary Muslim tries to do his duty to God and obey His laws and applies what he knows of these laws to his daily life as best he is able.
Judging Islam by al-Qaida, Hamas, Hisb'allah and the rest is as absurd as judging Christianity by the Inquisition, the Crusades,(1,2, & 3), the persecution of Galleilo, Coppernacus, Darwin, the Scopes Monkey Trial, or the lastest Pat Robertson rant.

Posted by: Ali_Massoud [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 5, 2006 02:01 AM

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