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<blockquote data-quote="Gadarene" data-source="post: 63159399" data-attributes="member: 306152"><p>The US had its fair amount of domestic terrorism before that. I personally think the hysteria over Islamic terrorism (originating overwhelmingly from the Middle East) is by and large because of the greater sense of "otherness" they inspire.</p><p></p><p>They're not white, they have different languages, names and culture.</p><p></p><p>But hey, the Unabomber was at least white and American. Which is why his terrorism wasn't an indictment of white Americans in the eyes of white Americans. He was still "one of us" in that sense, but that self-interest gives people more of a sense of proportion about behaviours of an extreme minority within their own group. </p><p></p><p>If the same behaviour occurs from another group - the "them" - suddenly it's a representation of them as a whole.</p><p></p><p>Here's another recent example to illustrate the point:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/06/sexual-abuse-in-white-community" target="_blank">It's time to face up to the problem of sexual abuse in the white community | Joseph Harker | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk</a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This. So much this.</p><p></p><p>I need to finish reading this, but based on what I've read so far it's a very good political-science-based look at Al-Qaeda, by a guy who's apparently stolen all the Mohammeds for his name and isn't sharing them with anyone else.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Understanding-Al-Qaeda-Transformation-War/dp/0745325920" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Understanding-Al-Qaeda-Transformation-War/dp/0745325920</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gadarene, post: 63159399, member: 306152"] The US had its fair amount of domestic terrorism before that. I personally think the hysteria over Islamic terrorism (originating overwhelmingly from the Middle East) is by and large because of the greater sense of "otherness" they inspire. They're not white, they have different languages, names and culture. But hey, the Unabomber was at least white and American. Which is why his terrorism wasn't an indictment of white Americans in the eyes of white Americans. He was still "one of us" in that sense, but that self-interest gives people more of a sense of proportion about behaviours of an extreme minority within their own group. If the same behaviour occurs from another group - the "them" - suddenly it's a representation of them as a whole. Here's another recent example to illustrate the point: [url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/06/sexual-abuse-in-white-community]It's time to face up to the problem of sexual abuse in the white community | Joseph Harker | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk[/url] This. So much this. I need to finish reading this, but based on what I've read so far it's a very good political-science-based look at Al-Qaeda, by a guy who's apparently stolen all the Mohammeds for his name and isn't sharing them with anyone else. [url]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Understanding-Al-Qaeda-Transformation-War/dp/0745325920[/url] [/QUOTE]
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