So this incident begs the question: do all good Muslim parents keep a jar of caustic chemicals around the house just in case one of daughters make the fatal mistake of looking at passing motorcycles piloted by young male Muslims?
Honey did you put a jar of acid on the shopping list? Fatima has been looking at boys again.
The fallacy of petitio principii, or "begging the question", is committed "when a proposition which requires proof is assumed without proof", or more generally denotes when an assumption is used, "in some form of the very proposition to be proved, as a premise from which to deduce it".[2] Thus, insofar as petitio principii refers to arguing for a conclusion that has already been assumed in the premise, this fallacy consists of "begging" the listener to accept the "question" (proposition) before the labor of logic is undertaken.
Here is an example:
Paranormal phenomena exist because I have had experiences that can only be described as paranormal.The conclusion of this argument is that paranormal phenomena exist. The premise assumes that the arguer has had paranormal experiences, and therefore assumes that paranormal experiences exist. The arguer should not be granted the assumption that his experiences were paranormal, but should be made to provide support for this claim.