Re: Boko haram massacre over 2000 people
Good point. I think this is about accurate:
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Re: Boko haram massacre over 2000 people
Bush's wars were not called christian extremism because they werent christian missions, or even called so by the people taking part in it - national armies of US, and NATO - not pope joe de vaticano jr etc. The real problem about bush's wars is no one even calls it extremism or unjustified. but that is another discussion.
They were done in the name of 'freedom' and opposing tyranny. Let's forgive people her for using false parallels, but there are many to be made. Kudos to your final comment, though...agreed.
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Boko haram, al shabab, isis, taliban etc on the other hand make it all too clear they are fighting for their god and religion, their interpretations, invoke religious texts and terminology every single time in their communications. and wherever in power, they impose their ideas of the shariah. You cant blame the media for seeing them as religious extremists.
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I think what doesn't sit well with me and others, and perhaps it is a trivial concern in the grand scheme of things, is the lack of qualifiers. I mean, a white supremacist captures the ideology quite well...belief in the supremacy and mastery of the white race over all others. Kinda know where they stand.
But, with "fundamentalist", or "extremist"...to my mind could very well mean anything from one who doesn't swallow their spit in Ramadan to those who give their entire earnings away in Zakaat in preference to poverty...to those who want to wage perpetual Jihad against the world by playing the role of Sahaba and casting the rest of the world as either hypocrites or pagans.
I know, the pattern of behavior that's being decried and labeled seems to be similar, and indeed the groups that are committing the atrocities are in fact linked (and not simply "emergent' behavior from a sufficiently religious mindset). But it's silly to throw their lot in with the likes of, say, the Brotherhood, or the regime in Iran. Vastly different ideologies and modes of thinking shouldn't have the same label.
Re: Boko haram massacre over 2000 people
Just in time:
Does Islam fuel terrorism? - CNN.com
Peter Bergen suggests ‘Binladenism’ as a fitting term, as in ‘Marxism’. I’d agree. In this case, Islam simply provides the cultural context in which a particular ideology draws it’s queues from.
Re: Boko haram massacre over 2000 people
Good to term them anything else but not islamist or any thing related to islam. That will be a good thing and all media shud highligh it