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I'm nervous about the response that these attacks will conjure from the far right. There have already been a good deal of attempts on the lives of innocent Musl

I'm nervous about the response that these attacks will conjure from the far right. There have already been a good deal of attempts on the lives of innocent Muslims [1] since the attack on Charlie Hebdo, and I find it very concerning that I have heard none of this from the national/international news media. Would these not as well be considered acts of terrorism? Why not report on them? Doing so would seem to unfairly advance the anti-Islam sentiment in France by effectively silencing the acts of terrorism from non-Muslims. [1] http://mic.com/articles/108206/how-bad-is-france-s-anti-muslim-backlash-to-the-charlie-hebdo-attack-check-this-map http://mic.com/articles/108206/how-bad-is-france-s-anti-musl...

digi_owl 12y ago
Yeah, thats the really big one here. Frankly i see the shooters and the "far right" as pretty much two variants of the same. Swap around a few words on various slogans and you would not know if it came from jihadists or skinheads. In almost all cases we are seeing young men with no apparent future being scooped up by some "recruiter" and indoctrinated. Street gangs, cults, terrorists, all the same once you boil away whatever "makeup" they apply...
esaym 12y ago
How do you know those attacks were done by the 'right'? What you have done is no different than people saying all "Muslims are terrorists".. Yet you get upvotes. People that harm people have one thing in common. It is not the 'right' or religion. They are loony and mis-guided, and have their priorities severely out of place. Plain and simple. Such polarization will never lead to any kind of peace.
- nahiluhmot 12y ago
  That's a fair point, the article I quoted does not mention if these people were on the 'right' or not. However, by saying "far right", I was trying to imply that extremists from that side would carry out acts on Muslims, much like extremist Muslims attacking the Hebdo. I assumed these attacks would come from the right because of a culture of Islamophobia that I've seen on places like Fox news, which I consider to be a far right media outlet. For example: http://www.vox.com/2015/1/12/7533159/fox-news-pirro-rant http://www.vox.com/2015/1/12/7533159/fox-news-pirro-rant http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/muslims-are-evil-lets-kill-them-all-us-tv-commentator-erik-rush-provokes-furious-reaction-with-boston-bombing-twitter-rants-8575176.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/muslims-are... http://www.salon.com/2014/08/20/foxs_andrea_tantaros_you_solve_it_with_a_bullet_to_the_head/ http://www.salon.com/2014/08/20/foxs_andrea_tantaros_you_sol...

digi_owl 12y ago

Yeah, thats the really big one here. Frankly i see the shooters and the "far right" as pretty much two variants of the same. Swap around a few words on various slogans and you would not know if it came from jihadists or skinheads. In almost all cases we are seeing young men with no apparent future being scooped up by some "recruiter" and indoctrinated. Street gangs, cults, terrorists, all the same once you boil away whatever "makeup" they apply...

esaym 12y ago

How do you know those attacks were done by the 'right'? What you have done is no different than people saying all "Muslims are terrorists".. Yet you get upvotes. People that harm people have one thing in common. It is not the 'right' or religion. They are loony and mis-guided, and have their priorities severely out of place. Plain and simple. Such polarization will never lead to any kind of peace.

nahiluhmot 12y ago
That's a fair point, the article I quoted does not mention if these people were on the 'right' or not. However, by saying "far right", I was trying to imply that extremists from that side would carry out acts on Muslims, much like extremist Muslims attacking the Hebdo. I assumed these attacks would come from the right because of a culture of Islamophobia that I've seen on places like Fox news, which I consider to be a far right media outlet. For example: http://www.vox.com/2015/1/12/7533159/fox-news-pirro-rant http://www.vox.com/2015/1/12/7533159/fox-news-pirro-rant http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/muslims-are-evil-lets-kill-them-all-us-tv-commentator-erik-rush-provokes-furious-reaction-with-boston-bombing-twitter-rants-8575176.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/muslims-are... http://www.salon.com/2014/08/20/foxs_andrea_tantaros_you_solve_it_with_a_bullet_to_the_head/ http://www.salon.com/2014/08/20/foxs_andrea_tantaros_you_sol...