LockeColeMA wrote:
I find this a gross over-exaggeration that ignores many MANY differences between the two religions/cultures.
I get your point, but it's inaccurate enough to border on irrelevance.
There need not be one single commonality between the two cultures. What is relevant is that once again a numerously dominant culture in a set of countries has allowed the bad behaviour of a minority of individuals within a minority culture to erroneously form their idea of individuals in that entire minority culture.
ZOMG, bad Muslims blow **** up and shoot people!
ZOMG, bad White Anglo-Saxon Protestants blow **** up and shoot people! Aussies and Australians don't presume therefore that all WASPs are medieval terrorist fodder.
I'm sick of the baddies turning out to be Muslims in the majority of action films the past two decades, after the end of the Cold War, during which all the baddies turned out to be Russian. I'm sick of Vox Pops on Australian, American and European streets saying they don't think having a "mosque" built in their locality is appropriate. I'm sick of women and girls in head-scarves being yelled at and spat on. I'm sick of the scapegoating of an entire religion of people.