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Originally Posted by Itse
What is the worst that people who accuse other people of bigotry do?
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Create (along with the mirror image of this behaviour) potentially irreparable political polarization that is at present doing its level best to slowly erode the foundations our society rests on. Which is what this thread should be about rather than focusing on Islam specifically, I guess, but it's not my thread so what do I know. And besides, I know there's not much point in saying so; you've just spent about a page trying to convince anyone who will listen that this issue is all in Thor's head and there's nothing to worry about.
Anyway, I'm not sure that anyone is arguing that Islam must be destroyed lest it destroy our way of life. I would say that some might take that position with respect to religion generally, if they weren't particularly nuanced. One might also take a modified version of that view with respect to Islamism; namely that a clash with that particular political ideology is inevitable as its adherents can't be negotiated with.
Modified to one of those two views that I think people actually hold, they can be disputed, obviously. I would say that discarding them as fantasy is essentially useful idiocy, but that's beside the point - you can offer rational reasons for rejecting what you've characterized as the "clash of civilizations" perspective. You can't dispute a self-righteous manichean attitude like Crumpy-Gunt's; it's an instant death sentence to rational discourse.