06-12-2017, 11:37 AM
(06-12-2017, 11:21 AM)Dill Wrote: 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 only about 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.
Why do you think he selects Muslims? Remember he doesn't like any mono-theistic religion, but he is really going after one right now. There are only a couple of reasons he would do this. What do you believe his reasons to be?
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