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Thread #154376   Message #3628245
Posted By: GUEST
26-May-14 - 05:42 AM
Thread Name: BS: Islamic radicalism . . .
Subject: RE: BS: Islamic radicalism . . .
It might be revealing to ask a non-radicalised muslim around and ask his opinion sometime. It's a bit like discussing racism when you're not on the receiving end - about the only thing I know is that I don't know, the more I learn the worse it seems, all that the legislation has done is drive the racism underground, making it harder to get a grip on and so more entrenched. I'm being careful to differentiate between equality in entitlement, disadvantage and racism, in passing, so I'm not buying into any sense of corrective reverse discrimination.
Of late, discrimination also works the other way, blacks using non-existent racism as a defence against their own faults. That too is racist, sadly, so it's not as if it's a one-way street.
Perhaps this is thread drift, that the question was of radicalisation. But the problem is that when the only way out of an unendurable situation is radicalisation, everyone loses: the real answer is to constinue to offer a way out of the corner, through tolerance.