(February 23, 2015 at 8:22 am)SeanBean Wrote: I never really read up on this story but I always got the sense whenever hearing about it (the initial killing anyway) that the media almost wanted to paint this picture that Denmark and all Scandinavian countries for that matter had some kind of anti-semitic, anti immigration problem. Like the two were connected. I even saw headlines referring to Anders Breivik (whose main motive was immigration-related) and this story as though they were related somehow.
Upon reading this article, I notice the killer was born of Palestinian immigrants, and I just found out he was a radical Islamist who was involved with gangs all his life from reading a different article. His motives for his crime were not related to immigration in the slightest. But why am I not surprised at such media fuckery. These attacks had nothing to do with immigration. But cue the religionists playing the victim card and making out like their cultures are under some kind of attack from the nation they now call home. Not like we've seen that before.
Well Jews and Muslims are right that the bigotry exists, no one should deny that. I would point out to both that you cant hide behind your own pain because pain is not a patent owned by any label. So I do believe it when Jews say their is bigotry to them in Europe and I also believe it when Muslims say the same. I would also point out that events like this do happen as well, and there were also Europeans offering Muslims rides and protection after the Hebdo attack. And it was a Muslim who saved the Jews in the store.
The terms "minority" and "majority" apply to all 7 billion of us and what makes us either is location. Regardless pain is an emotion all humans feel so it is really a bad idea for anyone to think it is unique to on label or human history.
No, that is not saying "get over it". I think it is extremely important never to sugar coat the horrors humans inflict on each other.
