One of the important things I have come to realize:
Hatred of Israel, "Zionists" and Jews is so ubiquitous and normalized in Islamic societies - 2 billion people and 57 countries - that rejection of those views as bigotry constitutes rejection of beliefs deep in the fabric of those societies.
These beliefs are so deeply embedded in Islamic societies, expecting them to reject their hatreds (and their associated narratives) would block us from being "inclusive" of Muslims in our society.
Any demand on Muslims to reject these antizionist and anti-Jewish narratives will be coded as "culturally supremacist," because demanding their removal from Islamic culture would revoke "diversity" over here, while invoking charges of "Orienatlism" or "Islamophobia" which "dehumanizes" the Muslim.
Because of the depth of their commitments to this bigotry, you cannot embrace Muslims - 1/4 of humanity, as partners in "coexistence" without embracing their hatreds.
As a result, inclusiveness and diversity requires we must "accommodate" the bigotry and libels within Islamic societies, if they are deeply and sincerely held by these societies (as they are).
The antizionist hate movement is simply the paradox of tolerance raised to an exponent. To resolve this version of the paradox, the Western left have cast the locus of all intolerance onto the "Zionist" as the scapegoat which can resolve the contradictions in their own philosophy.
Next is to send the scapegoat out into the desert to die.
Post by Gregg Rosenberg,
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