re: #43 klys

There has to be a special kind of hatred lurking to take advantage of the guy’s rescue to come out of the woodwork 5 years later - after you’ve been sitting at home with your family and he’s been held captive - and smear his character while he’s unable to respond.

Of course, these guys are also linking to Gatestone. So.

Don’t forget that in our post-9/11 world there are people who never recovered from the initial shock of the attacks and still carry an intense, unreasoning hatred of anything and anyone related to Islam/Muslims, up to and including culture & languages. Most of the ones that were here at LGF are gone now (though there’s still at least one that I’m aware of) but there are many, many others out there, as anyone familiar with the anti-Muslim hate blogs knows.

For those people, any non-Muslim who dares to be anything less than snarlingly contemptuous of The Enemy™ (all Muslims) is seen as an apologist, a traitor, a fool. Any sort of kindness or attempt to reach out & understand The Enemy™ is weakness. They don’t see us—any of us, myself included—as human. They don’t care if we’re profiled, or tortured, or denied our constitutional rights & protections, they just want us GONE so they can feel safe again. Some of those people were/are in the military (think West & Boykin for starters), no doubt among enlisted soldiers as well as officers.

Those people are fed even more fear & hatred by those individuals & organizations in the “Islamophobia industry” whose cynicism, lack of ethics, and opportunism permits them to toy with the potentially deadly fire of bigotry in order to achieve their political goals.

I don’t really like to talk about this shit because it depresses me, but I’m pointing it out because it’s very real—if Bergdahl didn’t understand that, then it could have caused him some serious problems.

Ugh. going back to work now. I don’t want to dwell on this shit.