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by dingaling
3434 days ago
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> Guiliani gave what he thought to be a muslim ban, It's pretty poor as an effort if that's what it was meant to be. At least 70% of the World's Muslim population aren't banned. http://www.pewforum.org/2015/04/02/muslims/pf_15-04-02_proje... I'm not even a USian but I find myself posting on these threads because otherwise-rational people are posting irrational, inaccurate statements. We wouldn't accept people saying 'withdrawing FTP access for kernel.org is a ban on FTP!!!'. So why don't we extend that rationality to other domains? |
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Also, when people talk about 'muslims' in these Anglo countries of ours, they're generally not imagining Indonesians or Malays. In the US it's middle-eastern muslims. In the UK, you can add south asians to that mix. Even here in Australia, 'muslim' doesn't evoke imagery of Indonesians, even though we're right next-door to them and have decent trade links. And before Boko Haram made the news, the general public had no idea that muslims lived in sub-saharan Africa, except maybe around the horn near the Arabian peninsula.
In short, it's an "anglo stereotype of muslims" ban, minus countries with good business links.