Cool. I suddenly realized that I'd have to go remind myself what you believe, and it's faster, easier, and probably more accurate to assume I'd been a serious dork.
I don't think "jihad" means the same as an appropriated word in USian English as it does in its original context.
If it ever did, it doesn't anymore. Jihad is pretty much shorthand for "9/11 and/or Taliban" in US English. And there are an awful lot of parallels between the far-right dominionist evangelical movement and the Taliban, which is the reason for the talibangelicals tag and for Starcat's anger; we're both members of a comm that has been tracking the political rise specific branches of far-right Christianity that is hostile to everything outside itself, including all other branches of Christianity.
So that's the background I brought to the original post and she brought to her answer.
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Date: 2009-06-01 01:27 am (UTC)Cool. I suddenly realized that I'd have to go remind myself what you believe, and it's faster, easier, and probably more accurate to assume I'd been a serious dork.
I don't think "jihad" means the same as an appropriated word in USian English as it does in its original context.
If it ever did, it doesn't anymore. Jihad is pretty much shorthand for "9/11 and/or Taliban" in US English. And there are an awful lot of parallels between the far-right dominionist evangelical movement and the Taliban, which is the reason for the talibangelicals tag and for Starcat's anger; we're both members of a comm that has been tracking the political rise specific branches of far-right Christianity that is hostile to everything outside itself, including all other branches of Christianity.
So that's the background I brought to the original post and she brought to her answer.