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by senior_james 3370 days ago
"After months of media hype about what would happen if a xenophobic extremist like Wilders won the election, it’s not surprising that any other outcome was so quickly heralded as a victory"

"Xenophobic" implies that you hate someone or something irrationally. I think all of the violence we see in the name of Islam (and the majority of its leaders not denouncing it, especially in places like Israel) is a pretty rational and logical fear.

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> "Xenophobic" implies that you hate someone or something irrationally. I think all of the violence we see in the name of Islam (and the majority of its leaders not denouncing it, especially in places like Israel) is a pretty rational and logical fear.

This, and of course we need to take into perspective the fact that the Netherlands have experienced high-profile islamic-inspired terrorism continuously for over a decade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstad_Network