I AM WEARY TO THE DEPTHS OF MY SOUL OF HAVING TO FIGHT AND PUT UP WITH BLAND DEPRECIATION, INDIFFERENCE AND INSULT SIMPLY TO MAINTAIN IN PUBLIC THAT A IS NOT NON-A.
I've seen that quite recently - the desperate clawing at moral equivalency between Islam and Christianity. The Boston Bombing has really revealed the insecurities of the liberal world - you have an article in Salon openly wishing for the bomber to be a white American, and the usually reliable Glen Greenwald doing a fantastic ostrich impression by insisting that the culprit's obvious affiliations with radical Islam have little to do with the attack, and calling it 'terrorism' is a step too far. And the never ending non-argument of "Islam has jihad, Christianity had the crusades" - as if a one-off, belated response to centuries of Islamic aggression is anything like a central religious doctrine that commends never-ending military aggression as a religious duty. Ugh. I blame Karen Armstrong.
If you want, we might also say that they are both Caucasian - with a far better title to the adjective than practically everyone whom American authorities so defined.
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Date: 2013-04-27 01:24 am (UTC)And the never ending non-argument of "Islam has jihad, Christianity had the crusades" - as if a one-off, belated response to centuries of Islamic aggression is anything like a central religious doctrine that commends never-ending military aggression as a religious duty.
Ugh. I blame Karen Armstrong.
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