re: #225 Nyet

What that woman said was formally true but misleading. AA is not inherently violent, true. A murderer shouting AA while committing murder is absolutely meaningful and points to the motive (no, not establishing it 100%, meaningfulness is a matter of probability).

The whole point is fighting back against the concept that ‘Allahu Akbar’ is, inherently , a violent and terroristic phrase, and that anyone who dare uses it (i.e. Muslims) is somehow inherently terroristic themselves. That’s the point they’re trying to get at, because as others have pointed out above, the way the phrase is treated, you’d think it translated directly to ‘Death to the West’. They don’t care about the context, they’re trying to criminalize Islam and Muslims as a whole by making some indelible attachment between that phrase and terrorism as a whole.