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In reply to the discussion: In defense of the need to post blasphemous caricatures [View all]Violet_Crumble
(35,980 posts)You falsely accused me of being dishonest and claimed incorrectly that I'd said people shouldn't 'mock' minorities and then called me dishonest when I pointed out correctly that I hadn't said that at all. Here's the link again to what I did say http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6640849
Like I said before, I won't wait for an apology.
Okay, I never thought I'd see someone at DU arguing that the RW fundies don't have the upper hand when it comes to minority groups. The Religious Right is very powerful in the US in case you haven't noticed. I'm not sure why yr even trying to argue about such an obvious thing as this. Sorry, but did I miss where minority groups that tend to be targets for hate have power and representation in the highest levels of politics over there? Because the Religious Right does have that power and representation...
I'll be crystal clear about what American Muslims have to fear from the RW Christian fundy types. Things like 'protests' (maybe you'd call them mocking) where they scream abuse at Muslim children singing the US national anthem, things like a politician in a US state having an open day and demanding that any Muslims who visited her office must swear an oath of allegiance to the US on an Israeli flag, things like the Religious Right having a shitload of influence on the Republicans. And their rage is aimed at Muslims, not Jews nor Hindus. I think the groups they don't like would be LGBT and African Americans.
Here's an article about the Religious Right and their Islamophobia.
Coalition of fear: Tea Party, the religious right, and Islamophobia