Maybe our downfall began when Man uttered His first word. It's been
downhill ever since. We have this unnatural love affair with the
noises that come out of our mouths. Maybe it's time we shut up and
rolled up our sleeves and began living together like good neighbors
should.
Carl Jarvis
On 8/13/17, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Charlottesville Police Officer Nash. (photo: photographer unknown/Facebook)
Top 5 Ways White Terrorism Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry
By Juan Cole, Informed Comment
13 August 17
I've argued for some time that US media treats white terrorists
differently
than others. And, I noted recently that the US press seems to have been
astonished when the governor of Minnesota branded the bombing of a mosque
"terrorism." We have more evidence today to make my point.
1.
The right wing in the United States has made hay by insisting on calling
Muslim extremists "radical Islamic extremists." This phrase is propaganda,
since it is strident and redundant. Are there, like, any non-radical
extremists? Moreover, "Islamic" refers to the ideals of the Muslim
religion,
just as Judaic refers to Jewish ethics and high culture. You can have a
Jewish criminal. Bugsy Siegel comes to mind. And you can have a Muslim
criminal. But you can't have a Judaic criminal and you can't have an
Islamic
one.
In contrast to this rhetorical overkill regarding the small Muslim fringe,
American pundits do not insist that the KKK, white supremacists and
alt-Neo-Nazis who descended on Charlottesville, Va. on Saturday be termed
"radical white extremists."
In fact, Trump refused to single these creeps out for condemnation at
all:
2.
Whenever a Muslim terrorist commits an attack, right wing television
anchors
bring on hapless ordinary Muslims and demand to know why they and their
leaders have not denounced terrorism.
(Actually Muslim leaders from al-Azhar Seminary in Cairo to Grand Ayatollah
Ali Sistani in Iraq have gone blue in the face denouncing al-Qaeda, ISIL,
terrorism, etc. But Western pundits are so ignorant they don't even know
who
the leaders of the Muslim faith are and so can't hear the condemnations.
Moreover, ISIL wasn't defeated in the main by Westerners but by
Muslim-heritage troops who took high casualties.)
But when white terrorists strike, as with Dylann Roof or those pond scum in
Charlottesville, no one demands that the leaders of the white people
denounce white terrorism. I guess that would be Frank Church, the president
of the Southern Baptist Convention. As far as I can see, the only reason
for
the Southern Baptist church to exist is to provide a place where white
Baptists can meet undisturbed by Black Baptists. So what with being so
white
and all, it should be asked to denounce the terrorism in Charlottesville.
Or
maybe Southern Baptists don't speak out on this issue because they secretly
harbor sympathies? (Sorry to do that to you, Baptists; I know you're good
people. it is just to demonstrate what it feels like to be a mainstream
American Muslim.)
3.
When Muslim terrorists commit vehicular homicide in order to terrorize
people, as on the London Bridge last spring, that is called terrorism, or
sometimes "lone wolf" terrorism.
But when a far right extremist white guy commits vehicular homicide in
Charlottesville against normal people protesting Nazism and the Confederate
legacy of slavery, I swear to God, CBS/AP called it "Driver in fatal
Charlottesville wreck"
The article notes that not only did that hateful person allegedly kill a
woman crossing the street, he badly injured a whole gaggle of people who
are
not being mentioned in the news:
"Five of the injured were listed in critical condition Saturday night. Four
thers were in serious condition, sixwere in fair condition, and four others
were in good condition, authorities said Saturday."
I don't know, I guess those ISIL guys from Libya in London could have been
characterized as "Drivers in fatal London Bridge wreck." I mean, it is not
incorrect or anything. It is just effing pusillanimous.
4.
The US government has a whole program for "combating violent extremism." It
initially worked against both Muslim and white supremacist extremism.
Trump last winter ordered that the program stop combating white
supremacist
extremism and focus only on Muslims. This despite the fact that you're many
times more likely to be harmed by a white supremacist than by a Muslim in
the US.
5.
Muslim extremists are often depicted as people who cannot adapt to the
modern world and are stuck in the eighth century.
White extremists, despite their bizarre attachment to plantation slavery
and
National Socialist memorabilia from the 1930s, are not similarly branded as
stuck in the past. In fact, what with their Alt media like the far, far,
far, far Right Breitbart (Volkische Beobachter in the original German),
they
are often seen as cutting edge modernists.
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