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In reply to the discussion: Salon: The United States is scarier than the Islamic State [View all]DirkGently
(12,151 posts)The ones who suggest American women should be strapped down and forced to give birth against their will? Who want to prosecute them for murder for a miscarriage?
The ones who want a religious test for who can hold office or enter the country?
The ones who rage about one mass shooting by one kind of extremist but have little to say about mass shootings committed by their own lunatics?
The ones who mock our own human rights standards and say we should execute families in acts of revenge and torture prisoners?
No. Republicans and Christian extremists discredit themselves. They are not only no better than Muslim extremists, but strengthen and enable them by proposing that America be vicious and intolerant as the worst of our enemies. They are so stupid and dishonest that they use the idea of a worldwide religious war to try to garner support. They make the arguments of Muslim extremists for them and perpetuate the same small minded ignorance.
Republicans haven't lost anyone to ISIL. They enabled the wars that allowed them to seek power, and then imply that the real conflict is between Islam and Christianity, which is a sickening lie.
Defending them discredits the country.