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A Small Clarification

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I just noticed that I had written yesterday, “Religion is just a hook used to recruit people who would otherwise be common criminals.” I didn’t mean to say religious people are common criminals, obviously. :) I meant that common criminals can be drawn into terrorist groups through the use of, say, radical Islam.

Thomas Krehbiel writes The Krehbiel Strikes Back, a generally centrist commentary on news, media, politics, and culture.

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