Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.
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« on: April 21, 2019, 10:39:06 PM » |
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« edited: April 21, 2019, 10:50:24 PM by Hugo Award nominee »
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The problem isn't Islam as a whole and the problem isn't specific mostly-Muslim ethnic groups. The problem is a concerted long-game ideological project within Islam to make the religion more extreme, more driven by fear of the Other in general and the developed democracies in particular, and more at odds politically and culturally with the non-Islamic world.
We'd probably be seeing a problem with worldwide Catholic terror if the currents that produce the people who make "Deus Vult" memes on r/catholicism had also produced the last few Popes. The fact that we don't is because that's not the case rather than because there's something intrinsically more irenic about Catholicism. Same with people like Wirathu and the worldwide Buddhist sangha.
The Wahhabist/Salafi ideology and its strengthening worldwide tendrils do deserve much more scrutiny than most Western "my Reagancatholic Boomer uncle hates Muslims so Islam must actually be a Woke Religion" progressives are willing to give them.
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