Is anybody else getting the meme about "radical islam"?

[JacksonWest]

IN the last couple weeks, I've noticed that a lot of news services are running stories that are about "radical islam". These stories always have a few common threads. They highlight hateful rhetoric from a cleric or imam. They seldom give a geographic location. They NEVER give an indication of what sort of number these "radicals" represent. The implication is that it is a huge one though. There is always one distinction between "radical" Islam and the Islam faith, at the beginning of the report. After that, the station will have speaker of middle eastern descent talk about "radical" Islam. They never discuss the motivations behind the speaker, his location, or his followers. They focus on the message exclusively. Viewers really don't learn anything other then the fact that somewhere, there is a Muslim who hates America, and he has many, many, many followers.

It's an interesting way to prep the country for war, and it's much more subtle then the Iraq build-up. It's a discreet to poison the country about Islam in general. I know it's not a new tactic, it just seems to be more prevalent now.

Just wondering if I'm paranoid, watching too much TV, or if anyone else has noticed this.

[stonecoldsober]

1. The radical islamists are tame compared to the islamo-fascists!

:sarcasm:

[nebenaube]

2. I'm just as afraid of the radical born-agains n/t

[stonecoldsober]

4. I'm mush more afraid off the radical christians

I mean, after all, we ARE fighting them here!

[Solo_in_MD]

6. Having seen both in action

I worry about the muslims a whole lot more...

[knight_of_the_star]

3. I don't think this one is a meme

Every ideology has radical strains, Islam is no exception to the rule. Just look at modern Christianity in America.

[JacksonWest]

5. I feel like the meme is there to make us think the threat is much broader than it actually is.

And the way some of these reports are done, you could do the same thing and generate the same fear against any religion.

[izzie]

7. Zealots with guns are always a worry and have been for a long time.

I do not seem to worry about them but I sure do pity the people who live around them. Do you know that Europe did not get two up tight when the archduke and wife were killed pre WW1 because some terrorist had always been doing the same thing. Yet look what happened. War for no reason and we are still stuck with the tail ends of that war today. Have we done a thing for Iraq, Middle East or US or the world. Madness.

[Beelzebud]

8. I'd be wary of any religious radical.

With those nutballs you get planes flying into buildings, fertilizer bombs, and fertility clinic bombings.

[not_a_robot]

9. Yes I've been watching this.

I've also been listening to evangelical radio where there is much promotion of 'unsheathing swords for god and eradicating the cancer among us' and even a few long winded propaganda pieces about the holiness of genocide for god that are exhaustively worded with code words and such . The corporatists are trying to move along without depending on the republicans and their democratic party equivelants for their expansion, they're trying to make a considerable section of the population bound to their loyalties with threats of death or violence. In a way I welcome it. The american people might soon realize that the enemy is not so much corrupt politicians or someone with a R or D after their name, but their masters. I hope people get it anyway. After all their goal is not just to violently remove opposition outside the borders of the USA.