Holy ********* Crazy

[Dill]

(06-12-2017, 12:27 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Outright laughable.  Comparing chopping peoples heads off, mass rape, horrific executions, genital mutilation, attempted elimination of entire cultures, (I could go on for days) to someone on the internet pointing out the teachings that are directly contributing to these acts is banality that even the internets would vomit at.  I get it though, you need to discount the logic of people by labeling them something that you hope will prevent others from paying attention.  It's cool, we all have our peccadillos.  

Your selective outrage certainly could go on for days. And that is part of my point.

I am not "discounting" your logic; I am pointing out the structural features it shares with all ideologies which target ethnic, religious and racial groups for hate. Because your target is different from some Islamists does not make your denigration of a world religion structurally different from theirs.

We are all "labeling" one another. The question is whether and/or how the labels are constructed and applied selectively.

"Chopping peoples heads off, mass rape, horrific executions, genital mutilation, attempted elimination of entire cultures"--all these practices hardly distinguish Western or "christian" culture from Islamic in any definitive way, even if your favorite qualifier "today" is added. Only in the selective reading of groupthink do these practices always become what "They" do and never what we do.

And as I write this there are other forums around the world where some Muslims attempt to dissuade other Muslims from denigrating all Christians because of mass rape, executions etc,--unfortunately with about the same rate of success I have in this forum.