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BoscoX -> RE: Why do so many Americans fear Muslims? (5/29/2017 10:58:07 AM)
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ORIGINAL: heavyblinker
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ORIGINAL: Aylee
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ORIGINAL: heavyblinker
This is a great article.
https://theintercept.com/2017/02/18/why-do-so-many-americans-fear-muslims-decades-of-denial-about-americas-role-in-the-world/
Of course the RWNJs will dismiss the Intercept as left-wing propaganda, but at the very least they are as hard on Obama and the Democrats as they are on Trump.
This is the most telling part:
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Trump’s story about why it’s necessary is, factually speaking, garbage. But a normal human being can at least understand it and its moral: These incomprehensible foreigners are all potential psychotics, we’ve got to keep them out. Under these circumstances, who cares that no one from any of these seven countries has killed any Americans yet? They’re all part of a huge morass of ticking time bombs.
By contrast, the Democratic, liberal perspective laid out by Obama makes no sense at all. We’ve never done anything particularly bad in the Middle East, yet … some people over there want to come here and kill us because … they’ve been exploited by violent extremists who’ve perverted Islam and … gotta run, there’s no time to explain.
Regular people could sense that anyone mouthing this kind of gibberish was hiding something, even if they didn’t realize that Obama was trying to keep the U.S. empire running rather than concealing his secret faith in Islam.
And because a coherent narrative always beats the complete absence of a story, no one should be surprised that many Americans find Trump’s fantasy of inexplicable Muslim hatred persuasive.
The most pointless war(s) that have ever been fought, started for purely political reasons, maintained by people who realize endless war is profitable... have led us to Americans who find inspiration in Trump's ugliness simply because the Democrats know it would be political suicide to admit that America itself is to blame.
I would not call it fear. I would call it a dislike for the political and cultural ideology of Islam - Muslims are just those that carry it out. These are things that I dislike about it:
Female Genital Mutilation,
Honor violence,
Religiously mandated spousal abuse,
Blasphemy codes,
The persecution of religious and sexual minorities,
The subjugation of women,
The grooming and sexual exploitation of girls,
The murder of apostates,
The dehumanization of unbelievers,
The indoctrination of children,
The contempt for liberalism,
The surrender of critical thought,
and the systematic bludgeoning to death of free expression.
What about:
Decades spent killing and oppressing families in the middle east,
Sexual assaults committed by soldiers and a child prostitution ring run by Trump associate Erik Prince,
Heavily contributing to the rise of extremist terror groups by giving them genuine reason to hate America,
Killing for profit,
Non-religiously mandated spousal abuse,
The persecution of religious and sexual minorities (travel ban and Pence's extreme homophobia... and he caused an AIDS epidemic by targeting clinics that also offered abortions... except, oh wait, no they didn't, he just cut their funding... and then spent it on gay conversion therapy),
The election of a bully who disrespects women and brags about it,
The grooming and sexual exploitation of girls (http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/sex-trafficking-america-0),
The dehumanization of liberals, Muslims, etc.
The indoctrination of children (some schools teach creationism in science class),
The contempt for liberalism (wait? weren't you the one who talked about 'The Great Reckoning' where all liberals would presumably be killed?),
The surrender of critical thought (Trump rallies are better?),
and the systematic bludgeoning to death of free expression (you elected a man who asked the FBI director if he could imprison journalists).
You actually support almost everything that you claim you oppose.
Well done.
You can't hate Islam and then support a guy who not only gives them $110 billion weapons contract, but also a massive share of the upcoming privatized infrastructure program:
https://theintercept.com/2017/05/27/trumps-america-first-infrastructure-plan-let-saudi-arabia-and-blackstone-take-care-of-it/
These investments are expected to make money, and that money will go to Saudi Arabia, who thanks to Trump will now grow increasingly less dependent on the west for muscle.
If you truly think Islam is evil, then you should remember that every time you use one of Blackstone's future roads, you're making them richer.
This after Blackstone gave Kushner $400 million since 2013... totally unrelated, I'm sure.
And that's not just a single suicide bomber, these are the same Sunni Muslims who send terrorists off to cushy country clubs while beheading homosexuals and women who cheat on their husbands. Whose culture spawns new terrorists every day, including those responsible for 9/11.
So... By your logic... Everyone who acknowledges that Islam is a mass murdering death cult, has to vote for Democrats
Who are hell bent on importing as many Muslims as possible, as fast as possible
And thereby commit suicide by Muslim
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