Given a thimbleful of facts
we rush to make generalizations
as large as a tub.
Gordon W. Allport
20th-Century U.S. Psychologist and Educator
The 2011 study “Shari’a and Violence in American Mosques,” published in the Middle East Quarterly, surveyed 100 U.S. mosques (selected proportionally by state Muslim population) between 2007–2010 and found that 81% contained texts…
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Its so true....
...we habitually construct all sorts of scenarios and generalisations in our heads about people and how people looked that morning or their facial expression or that they did or did not say something ...and we believe we know now and we begin to construct something about that person and peddle our opinion it as if it was fact...