Jihad is pretty much shorthand for "9/11 and/or Taliban" in US English.
Yes, which implies all Muslims are terrorists and is extremely problematic (for USians if the rest of us can't tell the difference between supposedly liberal Usians and right-wing USian nutjobs because you all use the same problematic language and therefore imply you believe/support the same things).
there are an awful lot of parallels between the far-right dominionist evangelical movement and the Taliban
Which is hardly surprising because, as I said in my previous comment, the Taliban's rise to power was funded by the US government to spread your own country's ideas to Afghanistan.
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.
Yes, and yet you verbalised your anger at your fellow USians, Christian USians, by referring to a Pashtun political movement and Islam. Something is pushing your focus away from your own domestic terrorism, even when you're trying to talk openly about it. It worries me because your ("your" individual and "your" collective) discourse on domestic terrorism is important and shouldn't be derailed by right-wing nutjobist concepts creeping in where they don't belong.
Which is why I risked more derailing by posting my first comment on this post and am continuing to derail because I think you might need to see/know what appears to be happening from my outside perspective.
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Date: 2009-06-01 11:31 am (UTC)Yes, which implies all Muslims are terrorists and is extremely problematic (for USians if the rest of us can't tell the difference between supposedly liberal Usians and right-wing USian nutjobs because you all use the same problematic language and therefore imply you believe/support the same things).
there are an awful lot of parallels between the far-right dominionist evangelical movement and the Taliban
Which is hardly surprising because, as I said in my previous comment, the Taliban's rise to power was funded by the US government to spread your own country's ideas to Afghanistan.
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.
Yes, and yet you verbalised your anger at your fellow USians, Christian USians, by referring to a Pashtun political movement and Islam. Something is pushing your focus away from your own domestic terrorism, even when you're trying to talk openly about it. It worries me because your ("your" individual and "your" collective) discourse on domestic terrorism is important and shouldn't be derailed by right-wing nutjobist concepts creeping in where they don't belong.
Which is why I risked more derailing by posting my first comment on this post and am continuing to derail because I think you might need to see/know what appears to be happening from my outside perspective.