Americans Have Double Standards Over Terror Attacks Carried Out By Muslims Compared To Christians

[HAB911]

Americans exhibit a double standard when it comes to religious violence, extending far greater benefit of the doubt that attackers claiming to be Christian aren’t really Christian than they do for attacks carried out in the name of Islam, a survey has indicated.

Responding to a survey from the Public Religion Research Institute, released Thursday, just 19 percent said that they believe people who commit acts of violence in the name of Christianity are genuinely Christians. When the same question was asked regarding Muslims, the number jumped to 39 percent.

The poll comes two weeks after reports emerged that the administration of President Donald Trump intends to change a government program combatting violent extremism to focus solely on Islamic extremism.

On the campaign trail, Trump repeatedly chided predecessor President Barack Obama for not using the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism,” something Trump vowed to eradicate “from the face of the earth” during his inauguration speech.

http://www.ibtimes.com/islamic-terrorism-americans-have-double-standards-over-terror-attacks-carried-out-2493909

[Fred Sanders]

1. No shit, Sherlock. Just look at the latest Christian killer of Muslims in Canada. Many more examples

of this societal double standard in America.

[Igel]

2. Also "of course."

We have double standards for in- and out-groups.

Get insulted by a family member, it's different from being insulted by a stranger. Esp. if the stranger's in a group you dislike--different race, ethnicity, or political party.

The number of unarmed blacks killed last year was huge. The number killed by police, small. The number of protests in city against police, huge. The number against a specific gang or gangs or youth violence, small.

More Muslim Arabs are killed by Muslims than by Israeli Jews. Yet when an Arab kills an Arab, when a Muslim kills a Muslim, the family mourns and that's mostly it. When a Jew kills an Arabs, the funeral procession includes hundreds of angry men, furious at the Yahud.

You're asking that the common American stop being human, while groups that you and I belong to, while groups that we tend to empathize or sympathize with, get cut a break and allowed to be normal. In other words, it's the same story: We're good, they're bad, the worst of us is better than the best of them. Yet we expect them to live up to higher standards than we do even as we say we live up to higher standards than them because we make excuses for our own and impute the worst motives possible to them.