Regardless of the complexities and intricacies of the geopolitical environment and the historical and contemporary causes that have created the situation in which we find ourselves, solving the issues that we face today will not be aided by the twisting of rhetoric to fit one agenda or another. It's why I bristle at both the people that try to absolve Islam of all responsibility and react with fierce censure against criticism, as well as the crowd that paints all Muslims as the same and suggest that foreign policy or America's historical blunders have no impact on the situation.
Both political correctness and overzealous nationalism/bigotry are impeding honest discussion, and I get enough of those from both sides of the spectrum politically.
Both political correctness and overzealous nationalism/bigotry are impeding honest discussion, and I get enough of those from both sides of the spectrum politically.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson