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Originally Posted by CaramonLS
Yet the narrative for the Charleston shooting was all about white pride, racism and the confederate flag? Everything seemed pretty open for discussion then.
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It isn't terribly likely that people are going to randomly start attacking white people on the street because of the Charleston shooting. White people are very rarely the victims of hate crime, at least where it regards race. (It happens, surely, but I would imagine those are very limited incidents)
Meanwhile, innocent brown people all over the US are being attacked, harassed, Muslim places of worship are being vandalized, etc, in greater and greater numbers since 9/11. There are huge amounts of innocent Muslims (as well as other people of Middle Eastern descent who aren't even Muslim, i.e. Sikhs) who are regularly being treated horribly because of the Radical Islam boogeyman due to a relatively small number of nutjobs who are twisting the words of their particular faith to support their own terroristic acts.
ISIS wants to make this a Western Nations vs. Islam battle. This is not a Western Nations vs. Islam battle. This is humanity vs. ISIS. So you treat ISIS as the fringe element it is, and rather embrace the millions of innocent Muslims who likely are as disgusted by these events as the rest of us.
By demonizing Islam, you just push more and more people toward the radical element.