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Your analogy is flawed. Kamiya's sentence isn't specious at all. He doesn't imply that she hates Islam, just that she's upset at its conservatism. Wondering how she could believe in the dogma of any institutionalized religion is reasonable given her issues with her own. She seems to want Islam to be something it never has been before, something that it unlikely ever will be. User feedback generally isn't part of determining the core "truths" of a religion. Certainly not when the original instruction manual is considered too holy to update.
However your new sentence certainly is specious. I'm not saying it hasn't been uttered/typed/spewed, just that it's loathsome and flat out wrong. Moveon's members' statements are less critical of their country than of those who are running the country and the actions they are taking. Moveon's members seem to want America to be something it was before, at least in some ways, and something that it definitely could be in the future, because they will help determine that future. Strangely, in our disheveled democratic republic, user feedback is a big part of determining what America is and what it should be.
