Israel: Romney, Walking Gaffe-Man, Insults America's Mid-East Allies

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36. "islamist" instead of "islamic" is like calling israel a "jew nation" instead of a "jewish nation"

the grammatical parallel isn't perfect, but the propagandistic point is to leave one word clean (islamic/jewish) in order to be able to claim that the speaking isn't actually a bigot and is showing religious deference, and imbue the other word with negative connotations in order to communicate the exact bigotry that the speaking can later deny.

thus, the speaker can claim to have respect for our christian/jewish heritage and respect for the jewish people, then slam israel as a "jew nation".

similarly, the speaker can claim respect for individual islamic people, but slam foreign leaders or terrorist threats as "islamist". when they are called out, they can always deny bigotry, saying oh, no, i'm not insulting anything islamic, i'm talking about the islamist violence and terrorism.