I'm sorry. It was ill-done of me to let my anger about this incident slop over onto you, and I apologize.
I do think that "jihad" is an entirely appropriate description for this particular campaign. There's a widespread myth in America that the only terrorists are the Muslim kind. Using words from Islamic culture to describe our home-grown Christian religious terrorists serves to underline the similarities between the two groups. Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh have much the same kind of influence over their followers that Muslim religious leaders exercise over theirs; what they have been doing is very little different from issuing a fatwa, and should be recognized as such.
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Date: 2009-06-01 06:10 pm (UTC)I do think that "jihad" is an entirely appropriate description for this particular campaign. There's a widespread myth in America that the only terrorists are the Muslim kind. Using words from Islamic culture to describe our home-grown Christian religious terrorists serves to underline the similarities between the two groups. Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh have much the same kind of influence over their followers that Muslim religious leaders exercise over theirs; what they have been doing is very little different from issuing a fatwa, and should be recognized as such.