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Feels like the Bush era with the amount of Islamophobia I’m seeing (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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Maybe this is ignorant bc Islamophobia never went away or anything but it definitely feels like there was a real peak of Islamophobia during the Bush era and after Osama bin Laden was assasinated it sort of dropped off to lower levels. It’d come back at various times (eg Charlie Hebdo) and maybe I was in a bubble but I never heard “we should glass the Middle East” told as a half joke half actual position after 2011 until the recent genocide in Gaza. But it’s really been feeling like the Bush era recently. The “why can’t I criticize the religion stuck in the Middle Ages” from critics of religion, like the new atheists back in the day, the (actual) cancel culture. Idk i doubt im the first to notice this but just something I was thinking of today.

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[–] Kopfrkingl@hexbear.net 34 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The “why can’t I criticize the religion stuck in the Middle Ages”

These are the most obnoxious for me. While I am not a fan of any religion, the people that start with the middle ages crap are basically always arguing in bad faith or without the context that is vital. Islam is also what this type of people use to justify US intervention in regions like Iran; just say that Iranis are religious fanatics that will nuke the world at the first chance they get; it's the perfect narrative: dehumanize them and, at the same time, make them appear to be a big threat to "world peace" i.e. US hegemony.

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The only country in the world to have used nuclear arms (needlessly) against another another nation sure loves getting high and mighty about what other countries might do with nukes.

[–] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think it's a sense of unresolved guilt about that fact that the US used one on civilians and got away even without it being called out as a war crime — if the US could get away with it, what if another country decided it was payback time?

[–] 10TH_OF_SEPTEMBER_CALL@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Guess who taught the arabs to be misoginists.

[–] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Islam "started in the middle ages" which is when Christians were dumping their shit onto Main Street and the Islamic world was actually the nexus of scientific advancement.

[–] 10TH_OF_SEPTEMBER_CALL@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Ever heard of the crusade when the french and germans went to palestine and check note fucking ATE a whole village, christians, arabs, jews, babies, wifes, whatever

Corroborated by both frank and arab sources.

[–] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have definitely heard this story when I was young and interested in the crusades. For some reason, insane violent atrocities (in print at least) had no effect on me as a child, but thinking about this now, yeah pretty fucked up thing to do in the name of god.

[–] 10TH_OF_SEPTEMBER_CALL@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

According to the source it wasn't done in the name of god, they were (I quote) "just hungry"