How Western anti-Muslim bigotry became respectable: The historic roots of a newly resilient ideology

[Douglas Carpenter]

Run time: 10:19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3po5rRpdcFs   Posted on YouTube: March 05, 2010 By YouTube Member: TheRealNews Views on YouTube: 301   Posted on DU: March 05, 2010 By DU Member: Douglas Carpenter Views on DU: 676

 
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http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=4884

[Scurrilous]

1. K & R

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[Bullet1987]

2. BUMP!!

[Violet_Crumble]

3. It's so true what he said about the use of 'Muslim' as a slur during the presidential campaign...

He's right that it's the same as the way Jew is used in parts of Eastern Europe where antisemitism is common and acceptable.

[winyanstaz]

4. It has never been acceptable at my house...

No hating because of sex, age, race or religion or politics etc is allowed in my home..period.

And it never will be.

[Violet_Crumble]

5. Kick n/t

[activa8tr]

6. I would like the US media to talk about the DANGER of Christians

who, by and large, have done most of the killing, most of the terrorization.

I'd like to know if some of those "Christian" nuts actually followed Pat Robertson or one of the other Christian kooks.

[azurnoir]

7. IMO anti Muslim bigotry being touted as patriotism

and considered "respectable" began in true earnest at the end of the cold war, in the US particularly our entire national policy has been predicated on a good guy-bad guy mentality when there were no longer Soviets to be the bad uys we "needed" a new and viola there it was Muslims