RE: Christchurch mosque shootings: the heartbreaking hearing
September 3, 2020 at 8:51 am
(This post was last modified: September 3, 2020 at 8:52 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Islamophobia is common, mass murders are not. Clearly, something more than mere islamophobia is required to take your run of the mill bigot and turn them into a terrorist. For this guy, it was great replacement propaganda. I don't know that anyone would put the sane stamp on that - but we can say, provided you believe in that sort of claptrap, a terrorist act can seem sane and rational. It would be consistent with his beliefs about the world around him. We could repeat this for the 9/11 bombers and run of the mill Great Satan propagandists as well.
OFC extremism is a human state, and it relies on ideologies that can strongly compel people to act. Religion sits pretty high up there on the list of things that strongly compel people to act. I suspect that our christian dominionists will act just like your islamists given the chance - and they have. Obviously, you can condemn whatever you like, but I think that you should probably understand what you're condemning.
A person was made to believe that the other guys were coming to kill his people, that they hated his people and were actively wiping them out. Because he could be convinced of this absurdity - he could be compelled to atrocity. The act of terrorism was a rational product of his view - and it's a rational product of any similar view, no matter who the other guy and your people are supposed to be in any specific context.
OFC extremism is a human state, and it relies on ideologies that can strongly compel people to act. Religion sits pretty high up there on the list of things that strongly compel people to act. I suspect that our christian dominionists will act just like your islamists given the chance - and they have. Obviously, you can condemn whatever you like, but I think that you should probably understand what you're condemning.
A person was made to believe that the other guys were coming to kill his people, that they hated his people and were actively wiping them out. Because he could be convinced of this absurdity - he could be compelled to atrocity. The act of terrorism was a rational product of his view - and it's a rational product of any similar view, no matter who the other guy and your people are supposed to be in any specific context.
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