Are you an Islamophobe?

[DeistPaladin]

Cause you can't have a discussion on the matter of Islam without taking into account the Christianity aspects. The two major religions in a bout of ideology? It's only the trigger to WW3, nothing major ya know right?

The Tu Quoque type of reasoning (a.k.a. "C'mon, everybody does it") is typically employed as the last line of defense to diffuse blame or avoid accountability, because God forbid we have to think about who's to blame or what ideologies might be destructive. It's always easier to sadly sigh and blame "extremes on both sides", or "there are some bad people out there", or "the system is broken".

It works well for the GOP and is used by our corporate media to enable them. Just wait until the next Republican is caught being abusive, corrupt or stupid and the first three words out of some corporate media talking head that you'll hear will be, "...but the Democrats...".

It's always in our media "the extremes on both sides" or "Washington is broken". There is never any accountability with this passive voice, always-blame-both-sides-equally style of reporting. Our media doesn't fact check anymore. Chuck Todd, host of Meet the Press, has said fact checking is not his job as a journalist and, furthermore, he won't ask hard questions of anyone because then they won't come back on his show.

This is why we as skeptics are going to hear about Chapel Hill North Carolina Shooting over and over again until the day we die. The "Both-Siders" now have their red meat and you can expect them to chew on it from now to the foreseeable future. "See, atheists do it too". The next Canadian Parliament Shooting you hear about is certain to contain a mention of "Well, remember how an atheist once shot those three Muslims? So BOTH SIDES!"

We won't talk about the fact that the shooter was described as a crazy, nasty little asshole by everyone who knew him. We won't ask why some nutcase got his hands on a gun and whether we can now have responsible gun control here in America. We still don't know why he shot those three people. That doesn't matter. What matters is he was an atheists and the victims were Muslim, so BOTH SIDES! Never mind that atheism isn't an ideology but simply a lack of belief. What matters is a man who was an atheist shot some people and that's good red meat for the Both Siders that they're not going to let go of anytime soon.