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Excerpts from the piece: "But the suggestion that violence by self-proclaimed Jihadists is the only threat to liberty in Western societies [...]" "[H]ow easy
by mariodiana 12y ago
Excerpts from the piece:
"But the suggestion that violence by self-proclaimed Jihadists is the only threat to liberty in Western societies [...]"
"[H]ow easy it is in Western societies to focus on radical Islamism as the real, or the only, enemy."
Who has suggested that radical, "Jihadist" Islam is the "only" threat or enemy of Western society? I'm sorry, but this piece is a bit of propaganda. Do a little googling. The writer was raised in Nigeria, and, as he's said, "half [his] family is Muslim." There is nothing wrong with these things, per se, but taken together with his lousy reasoning and outright straw man arguments, I'm accusing him of having an axe to grind.
Personally, I think "satire" of the type that appears in Charlie Hebdo is obscene and puerile. I don't like it -- and I don't subscribe to any religion. But terrorist attacks are worse by a couple of orders of magnitude. There is no comparison.
This piece is trash.