Since Rightists Are Behind All Terrorism, Why Not Have Pogroms To Deal With The Vermin? A Glorious Final Solution!!

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Why Is Trump Afraid To Admit That Muslim Terrorism IS Rightwing
Terrorism? He's Worse Than Obama! Trump is a politically
correct inbred coward who doesn't believe in God.


? Islamic Terrorism Is Right-Wing Terrorism
We’ve never come under attack by liberal Muslims, but
conservative Christians have drawn plenty of blood.

I? n the wake of the bloodshed in Orlando, some conservatives
are making the particularly vile claim that the left “chose
Islam over gays,” as Breitbart put it, and therefore is somehow
to blame for the loss of 49 lives on Saturday night.

This sort of rhetorical jab is why, in the hours after any mass
shooting or domestic terror attack, many of us secretly hope
that the perpetrator will turn out to be a Christian right-wing
extremist rather than a Muslim like Omar Mateen. It makes no
difference whatsoever to the victims or their relatives, but we
dread the inevitable outpouring of bigotry against all Muslims
that follows if the shooter is Muslim, and understand that
violence by Christian or Jewish or Hindu (or whatever)
extremists isn’t counted against those communities in the same
way. Nobody ever feels the need to ask whether their local
preacher condemns violence in the name of Christianity. It’s
just assumed.

But we should stop feeling a sense of dread at news that a
terrorist has a foreign-sounding name and acknowledge that
Islamic terrorism is right-wing terrorism. To the extent we’re
under attack, it’s not by moderate or liberal Muslims. There’s
no such thing as “liberal Islamism,” as liberal Muslims don’t
dream of dominating other groups. (In the United States,
Muslims are more likely to identify as liberals than the
population as a whole.)

The details differ, but the defining characteristic of all
right-wing religionists is an abiding contempt for religious
pluralism. They deny the legitimacy of other faiths. All
conservative religious traditions are hostile toward gays and
lesbians and those who reject traditional gender roles. Most
embrace religious nationalism and reject multiculturalism.
There are some exceptions, but most oppose abortion. They all
want to return to an idealized vision of an earlier, simpler
time. When you get down to brass tacks, they’re all right-
wingers.

Thankfully, the vast majority of conservative religionists
aren’t violent. That’s as true of Islamists as any other group.
Writing in The Guardian, the Pakistani scholar and author Ali
Eteraz argues, “It is a great fallacy to think that jihadists
and Islamists are one and the same.” But, he writes, the Muslim
right is an “ideological movement” that’s grounded in an
inherently conservative “individualist revolution” within the
Islamic world.

With their religious supremacism—which convinces them that
everyone else’s life would be better off if they adopted the
same values as them—these Muslims leave themselves wide open to
be preyed upon by savvy propagandists. Thus, hateful tricks
like invoking the dangers of homosexuality, attacking sexual
liberation, demonising religious minorities and foreign
cultures, and censoring anything that smacks of critical
thinking, are all used to keep the ideological base stirring.

That sounds a lot like Ted Cruz’s base.

Academic studies show that organized religious terrorism isn’t
really about religion. Groups like Al Qaeda and ISIS have
decidedly secular goals—political power or control of territory
or resources—and use religion as a potent recruiting tool. It
gives their followers a sense of shared identity, defines their
enemy, and steels them to commit unnatural acts of violence.
It’s the same with Christian terrorist groups like The Lord’s
Resistance Army in central Africa and India’s National
Liberation Front of Tripura. It’s the same with violence by
extremist settlers in the Occupied Territories. Their leaders
may claim to speak for their God, but their objectives are
always earthly, not theological.

Their leaders may claim to speak for their God, but their
objectives are always earthly, not theological.
And religious supremacism is not limited to violent nut jobs.
Among mainstream Christian conservatives there’s a common
belief that Islam, which is projected to be become the most
popular religion in the world by 2070, isn’t a religion at all,
and therefore shouldn’t be afforded protections under the First
Amendment. Roger Jimenez, a Baptist preacher in Sacramento,
didn’t kill anyone, but on Sunday, a local CBS affiliate
reported that he asked his congregation, “Are you sad that 50
pedophiles were killed today? I think that’s great! I think
that helps society. I think Orlando, Florida is a little safer
tonight.”

That belief system contrasts markedly with liberal religionists
of all stripes. They attend interfaith conferences. They’re
constantly calling for dialogue and understanding between
different faiths and stressing the universal values all of the
world’s major religions hold in common. At the extremes,
religious leftists may drop out and join hippie cults or get
arrested trying to rid the world of nuclear weapons, but they
don’t blow people up or go on shooting sprees.

A “lone wolf” may be suffering from mental illness, as Mateen
may have been, but the same conservative religious ideology is
motivating him. We know that Omar Mateen at least flirted with
ISIS. The FBI had interviewed him repeatedly. He reportedly
scouted Disney World as a potential target. But we also know
that a co-worker described him as a belligerent racist, and his
father told NBC that he had become enraged by the sight of two
men kissing. There are also reports that he was a regular at
Pulse, and cased other gay nightclubs before the attack. So
far, there’s no evidence that he was actually guided by any
organized terrorist organization.

Eric Rudolph must have been similarly enraged when he bombed a
lesbian nightclub in Atlanta. Yishai Schlissel, the ultra-
Orthodox Jew who stabbed three people at the 2005 Jerusalem Gay
Pride parade, went to prison, and then stabbed six more at the
2013 parade—one fatally—probably felt the same revulsion. In
ISIS-controlled areas, homosexuality is punishable by death.
Right-wing Christian extremists from the United States played a
key role in promoting a Ugandan law that would have imposed the
death penalty for gays and lesbians (after international
outcry, the death penalty was replaced with life in prison in
the final version of the bill).

In rejecting anti-Muslim bigotry, we don’t “choose Islam” over
anyone. The reality is that we reject the religious supremacy,
hostility toward LGBT people, and insistence on traditional
gender norms that’s embraced by virtually all conservative
people of faith, whether they express it with violence or
discrimination or strange laws governing where people pee.

So whether it’s Robert Dear shooting up a Planned Parenthood
clinic or Baruch Goldstein massacring Muslims at prayer or a
guy named Omar going on a killing spree in a gay nightclub in
Orlando, it’s all religiously inspired right-wing terrorism.
Let’s stop worrying about which holy text some killer cherry-
picked to justify his crimes and call it what it is.




https://www.thenation.com/article/islamic-terrorism-is-right-
wing-terrorism/