21st Century Anti-Muslim Ideology vs. 20th Century Anti-Jewish Ideology

[quaryn_dk]

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” -- George SantayanaI’m writing this the day after right-wing nationalist and anti-Muslim extremist Anders Behring Breivik (hereafter ABB) killed 7 of his fellow Norwegians with a fertilizer bomb parked in front of a government building, and then topped that atrocity by slaughtering 85

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[amourinmusik]

It's interesting that you say that persecution of women happens in Islam. that's not true. That's only fundamentalist Islam, just like fundamentalist christianity. Since when is it an essential belief of islam to denounce women? "I'm not an appoligist for islam" Why aren't you? Would that be such a bad thing? I know you're trying to help but it comes off as still dishing out the same stereotypes that everyone else has. I feel like people need to look at these things from the perspective of the part of the world that these things happen in. The climate in many muslim-majority countries has changed drastically since sept-11 and many countries that were once muslim and pretty liberal are now very strict and women are afraid to go out alone. I think comparing Jews to Muslims is a poor analogy. The political climate is completely different. There's just so many differences....

And what does comparing help anyway? Why not focus our energies on just accepting each other and comforting those that died in the attacks? I think that the best way to conquer negative ideas and hate is actually to ignore it completely and not give those people any attention. It doesn't matter what his "reason" was...the whole thing is wrong. Instead of talking about how horrible the media covered the attacks and all the crap Breivik spurred out...I talk about how much I love Norway, how it's a shame so many people were lost, and how great it is that we are all sticking together.