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i have to say that i am surprised to see this thread still twitching--i would have thought it's interest would have waned a bit, following on the trajectry of the posts, particularly those from the right.
but no.
from pastor tim's delightful post that reproduces the undifferentiated nonsense that underpins what i hope is not a reflection of the understanding of islam that operates in evangelical christian circles through ustwo's nonsensical posts concerning some hallucination of "special rights" being demanded my muslim groups on college campuses etc.--posts that sandwich a string from aladin sane reproducing news releases from various sources that presumably function to legitimate his particularly one-dimensional take on islam at the level of rhetoric----there seems to be no learning curve involved in this thread, no assimilation of critiques of stereotype-driven non-comprehensions of islam...nothing.
pretend no-one ever said anything, pretend that critiques, particularly those that link the foundation of conservative responses on this issue to conservative views of islam in general to racism never happened.
when smooth bothered to go through ustwo's "evidence" and demolished it point by point, ustwo simply said that he did not care if his "evidence" was found unpersuasive or not.
what is the point of this discussion then?
if it was made clear--repeatedly---that for many of us on this board, far right caricatures of islam were fundamentally racist, should there no be some kind of problem for the continuation of posts that recapitulate that same kind of thinking?
if there is not, then where does the requirement for civility find its basis?
it would seem to me that if there is a lack of civility to be found here, it comes from the folk on the right who persist in circulating really idiotic, quite offensive stereotypes of muslims. it would seem to me that if this is allowed, then any responses to it should be fair.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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