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In reply to the discussion: It's really, really hard to talk about radical Islamic terrorism [View all]ck4829
(35,038 posts)There is a such thing as "Islamic terrorism", but I, for one, really don't want to be picking up and using the bullet points and adopting the discourse of people who suggest mass bans, laws about surveillance and granting prosecution new powers getting just a little bit too close to totalitarianism, more war on the table (especially because that's gone so well so far), bombing cities just so they can "put the fear of God in them", dismissing all Muslims from government service, ethnic cleansing, and I think it should stop right there.
This potential is there, and you see it, "I fear the demonization of Muslims that could lead to horrific attacks on innocent people." Efrain Rios Montt, the genocidal Guatemalan dictator, had a regime that equated Mayans who needed to controlled, communists that needed to be killed, and demons who needed to be exorcised as one collective entity. I got the "dismissing all Muslims from government service" from Concerned Women for America and the foundation is there to simply switch Mayan to Muslim, keep the demon, and switch communist to terrorist.