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Originally Posted by Flames Fan, Ph.D.
Your comments and concerns regarding home grown radicals corrupted in muslims schools, etc... are primarily driven by what you're looking for and are implicitly interested in observing. When you don't see what you want to see and don't really look for it, then the outrage self-perpetuates.
The point about Prince is that a figure recruiting religiously like-minded zealots to go and wipe out people of other faiths is offensive and repugnant regardless of the side you sit on. But when the person is in a "muslim community" here in the west, they're home grown terrorists. When the person is a christian born in the US, we call him a CEO and an entrepreneur who moves to Dubai out of the blue (note the delicious irony on many levels).
Therefore, it's no secret to me why one of these examples offends and draws thread upon thread, and the other doesn't. What I see over and over in these threads are examples of people who claim that "X isn't doing anything about situation Y" simply because what they want to see isn't falling into their lap, or they're not looking for the answer prior to engaging in their narrative. This was exemplified by your comment in the recent wikileaks thread saying "Call me when we see dissidents chaining themslelves to coal plants or crying over dead ducks in polluted lakes there or in russia call me"... to which HPLovecraft replied 12 minutes later with copious links. Did all those world events happen in the intervening 12 minutes? Or did you outrage first and ask questions later?
This thread is full of similar narratives, many of which can be easily debunked by the posters themselves if they simply sit back and examine what they're writing.
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And I'm sorry that you think an internet alias is a means to promote and/or project authority. I would have thought that people would realize internet aliases are about as meaningless as they come, CaptainCrunch.
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so doctor...enlighten us...where should we look to find the light? Seriously you are coming across as a pious a$$...dont say things like we are looking in the wrong place when we have at least 20 different news organizations and the web throwing all kinds of information at us. Maybe Al Jazeera?