RE: Are IS islamic?
September 17, 2014 at 5:59 pm
(This post was last modified: September 17, 2014 at 6:03 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Quote:From Fox News to the Weekly Standard, neoconservatives have tried to paint terrorism as a largely or exclusively Islamic phenomenon. Their message of Islamophobia has been repeated many times since the George W. Bush era: Islam is inherently violent, Christianity is inherently peaceful, and there is no such thing as a Christian terrorist or a white male terrorist. But the facts don’t bear that out.
http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-ri...-white-men
My two cents, nobody gets a pass on any of it. Do peoples religious affiliations seem to mold their actions, of course. Can that lead to terrorism, yup. But I really don't give a shit whether it's muslim terrorism or christian terrorism or fucking jain terrorism (now -that- would be a good story). What does bother me, is the head in the sand routine when we point to one -specific- group and make excuses for the others (or pretend they don't exist). I think Cap pointed out something very important in this regard but I wanted to add that even though we don;t have the sorts of groups that 3rd world countries have - we do...still..have our homegrown christian terrorists (as well as other type, of course).
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