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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy is it just so damn often when I see "Islamist"
I also end up seeing "fucking asshole" too.
Gunmen, suicide bombers, terrorists, etc.
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Why is it just so damn often when I see "Islamist" (Original Post)
Archae
Jul 2013
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Rex
(65,616 posts)1. What exactly are you trying to say?
nt.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)2. you have a choice
you can wallow in your prejudices or fight against them.
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)3. You only see what you want?
Because you wear those special blinders?
Archae
(46,328 posts)4. It can apply to "Christianist" as well.
Just look at the "pro-life" and "pro-family" hate groups and terrorists here in the US.
Apply like one does makeup?
Or do you see assholes wherever you look?
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)6. "Islamist" != "Muslim"
radical fundamentalists are a problem regardless of their religion. They have their equivalents in the USA among the fundamentalist conservative Christians who want to ban abortion and gay marriage and contraception. They're precisely the same sort of asshole.
Archae
(46,328 posts)7. Exactly my point.