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[–] 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

Disgusting and such a clear example of the damage we do to another when we accept the all encompassing conditions of corporate social media without resistance.

When a social media website is being run for profit, this kind of shockingly ugly simplification of "foreign" ideas (Islam is NOT foreign to the US) is inveitable. In order to monetize at scale, the system demands this degree of ignorance, it is not optional nor an unintended side effect it is rather how "we" ensure the "right" history is recorded as a racist, xenophobic society choking to death on its own bigotry.

It is the same situation with mainstream corporate news. The more money you add, the more practiced and willful ignorance you get.

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  • [+] 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (10 children)
  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    This smells strongly of “brown religion bad”.

    Jesus was a brown, middle eastern, palestinian jew.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlehem

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It’s not a name. It’s literally just the word “God” in Arabic.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Yes, this is ridiculous, we aren't even talking about an especially specific word or concept, you might as well call the word for "love" in arabic inherently extremist, threatening and violent.

    Ask 1000 Christians what "god" means to them and get 1000 different answers, why would it be any different for Islam?

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