Yesterday, Bolt
posted a piece about the Boko Haram kidnappings in which he inferred that
the underlying problem was Islam itself.
I responded with
this comment which was published:
More fearmongering
nonsense.
The issue is not
Islam. The vast majority of the worlds Muslims do not support Boko Haram or any
other group that goes around murdering or kidnapping civilians.
Boko Haram are
nothing more than criminal thugs as are the Christian Lords Resistance Army and
the Ku Klux Klan.
Boko Haram does not
represent anyone – certainly not Islam – anymore than the Lords Resistance Army
or the Ku Klux Klan represent Christians.
This Boko Haram
incident is just another opportunity for Islamophobes to demonise all Muslims.
Bolt’s Bloggies
were quick to respond with varying degrees of venom but the jist of most of the
eleven responses to my comment was that, if the vast majority of the world’s
Muslims do not support Boko Haram, then where are the Islamic world’s denunciations
of the kidnappings?
Clearly, these
Islamophobic nutjobs are incapable of performing a basic Google search to find
out if there had been any denunciations because typing in ‘muslims denounce
boko’ would have provided all the
denunciations from the Islamic world that would have been more than enough
to change the tune of all but the most diehard of Islamophobic nutjobs.
Keep fighting the good fight Damian!
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