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In reply to the discussion: Rise of far-right in France after Paris Attacks [View all]politicman
(710 posts)2) Again, too many people will never admit to having racist attitudes, some know they have them but keep them hidden and some don't know they have them but they come out in small ways though 'unconscious racial bias' as you so eloquently explain it.
Someone who knows they have a racist attitude but is keeping it hidden will wait for a time such as after the Paris attacks to publicly display this attitude without being shamed by others, and an easy way to do this is un towards a party like Front Nationals, thus explaining its increased support after the attacks.
Someone who has an 'unconscious racial bias' will not realise they are favouring a white Frenchman over a coloured Frenchman in a recruitment interview, but the end result is the same, segments of the population end up with no jobs and stuck in banlieues which then breed this 'hood' culture you speak of.
And I don't except your premise of calling the French whites the host population, as if the French whites are more French than coloured French citizens and their descendants born in France, as if these French whites are the true owners of France and they are just hosting the coloured 'muslims'.
3) You repeat the same discredited crap that anti-muslim people repeat, or are you just one of them?
If you knew anything about the history of Islam and how it started, then you would know that when Islam was just getting started, it was common practice for people in Arabia to have slaves, mostly those of darker colour. It was only due to Muhammed and Islam at the time that having slaves was abolished because Islam says that no man is better than any other man except through his deeds and actions.
Btw, at that time in Arabia they used to bury infant girls alive but Muhammed and Islam also stopped that practice.
4) The Koran is written in such a way that anyone can find any justification for anything as long as they interpret it the way they want to.
I'll give you an example. The Koran says that dying while fighting in defence of your religion guarantees you heave. The Koran also says that killing one innocent person is like killing the whole of man kind.
Now the terrorists would interpret the above 2 things in a way to justifies their terror acts. For instance they might claim to some followers that there are no innocent people in the west because the west has democracies and the people choose their leaders and their leaders start bombing Muslims, thus attacking any western target is fighting in defence of the religion.
They would use some mental acrobatics like this to convince some Muslims that what they are doing is justified by religion. but 90% of Muslims don't see it that way.
Instead they disregard how sinful this is and instead verbally support these terrorists because they see it as payback for the wests constant bombing of Muslim countries and killing of Muslims throughout the world.