Islam

[Belacqua]

Believe it or not; there are members -and mods- here that said "seriously" that the whole Middle East should be nuked.
I wonder what's the difference between them and between ISIS. I wonder where the rules were when they said that.

Any sane evaluation of the Middle East is up against the full force of the Pentagon, CIA, and their propaganda wings, CNN, MSNBC, etc. For decades now it's been hammered into the English-speaking world that Islam is evil, that without it the region would be sweetness and light. And that the turbaned terrorists are lurking under everyone's beds. 

So it's no surprise that people parrot that. Manufacturing consent is what the US does best. 

I also think it's why your idea of opening a Human Rights section is met with indifference. Propaganda ties human rights issues to the two main boogie-men: Islam and Communism. It's inconceivable to most people that the US is by far the worst opponent of human rights in our lifetimes. Acknowledging that is too much cognitive dissonance for most people. 

So once an enemy has been named, it becomes like something out of Harry Potter world. The bad guys live in a land of permanent gloom, where all pleasure has been banished. Which means that us white folks, the good guys, are doing the world a favor by either liberating or eliminating them. (Where "liberating" means "forcing them to adopt an American life style.")