The trouble is that too many people in the western world unconsciously share this prejudice, convinced that Islam and the Qur'an are addicted to violence.
His disciples are supposed to share this prejudice, yet Mr. Konitz has long sought out drummers inclined to give him a tussle; a favorite record of many his fans is "Motion," from 1961, pitting him against the aggressive Elvin Jones.
Even her husband shared the prejudice, at first.
But Madison shared the prejudices of philosophers from Aristotle to Locke regarding the limits to the right to property.
Galton's creed had aimed at the uplift of humanity as a whole; although he shared the prejudices that were common in the Victorian era, the concept of race did not play much of a role in his theorizing.
Before I came to Iowa City to teach at the University here I shared the prejudices of Americans from other regions, especially against the landscape, a vast, fertile prairie generally dismissed with the word "flat".
Ingrams conceived of the Eye as "journalism done by a gang of friends", and since those friends shared the prejudices of their class-of-origin they were writ large over the years.
Well, maybe not, since Mr Murdoch is believed by some of his employees to share that prejudice.Perhaps there is room for reconciliation between the metaphysician and the magnate.
Deciding whether to play the Eton card in an election is, ultimately, a gamble on the nature of the British public – whether they share the prejudices and reverse snobbery behind all this.
