re: #61 CuriousLurker

Oh, FFS—this is exactly the dishonesty I’m talking about.

Funny how whenever I push back it gets labeled as hypersensitivity by some or, to use your words, chalked up to supposedly not paying attention and/or just being “in a picky mood tonight”. Your condescension is noted and utterly useless.

For anyone who still doesn’t fucking get it: Criticism of the murderous bastards running ISIS doesn’t bother me in the least because the actions they call Islamic are unrecognizable to me as such. I have ZERO control over the shit they do on the other side of the world, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to kill myself by dragging around feelings of guilt for their actions and/or feeling I need to apologize for them. But you know what? When some asshole says “Muslims” or “the Muslim world” then that DOES include me and I’m not gonna take it. Is that perfectly, 100%, crystal-fucking-clear?

What pisses me off to no end is the apparent ease with which the jihadis manage to make supposedly modern, enlightened Westerners slide back into a mindset we claim to have left behind long ago. They know exactly how to pull our chains, and people get so damned distracted by their own knee-jerk reactions that they’re blind to how they’re being played. We’re letting them make the rules—that’s dangerous and beyond stupid. Wake up.

It’s not “pushback” against what I actually said. And you’re the one slinging insults. You’re the one saying “dishonest” etc. If you’re writing that without having been in a bad mood or careless, then you don’t even have that excuse. There is nothing at all the least bit dishonest or inaccurate about what I wrote. I stand by every word of it, except if you insist that when I gave you the benefit of the doubt I was wrong, maybe I was.

And to be very clear, I never said, not explicitly and not by implication, that ISIS is really, truly, Islamic. It is, instead, LIKE I SAID, something new. And nor was the Rev. Jim Jones with his Guyana groupies and his KoolAid poison really, truly Christian. It’s just he didn’t have a twenty thousand man army to play with.