At 12/15/14 10:33 AM, lapis wrote:
Lol, here's a screenshot of the frontpage of the BBC website at the moment. Here's a link to the article that appears twice, both in the 'features' part and as part of the ongoing siege coverage. No need for a hashtag to support the families of the captives of course, they're totally fine and most of them probably are or should be busy checking their white privilege anyway. It's also on the frontpage of The Guardian.
I don't see why you can't support both. Shit like this happens all the time by people of all races, it's just when it's Muslims all Muslims immediately suffer. When Christians do this no one blames Christianity. A good example was the Oklahoma Bomber or the Oslo attacks. When it was uncertain who perpetrated the crime people immediately blamed Muslims and began discriminating against them, which was soon forgotten when the perpetrator ended up being a Christian White male. No one then backlashed against Christians or white males over it. Hell I don't even think this happens when blacks do the same thing, but it happens when Muslims do it. Not saying this is white privilege, it's more the disadvantages of being Muslim. If a Christian, Jew, Buddhist or other were to do this no one would go after Christians, Jews and Buddhists as a community , or it wouldn't be as widespread as if they were Muslim (ok maybe not all, if a Scientologist did this I'd bet there would be some suspicion of Scientology).
Whether or not ISIS is faithfully Islamic is one thing, but it's a whole other to assume that the majority of Muslims agree with them, which is something people are going to act like after shit like this. That said is it possible he has connections to ISIS? They did say they have dormant terrorist cells right?