Salafist Terrorism

[JonS]

@caze

the labeling that I’m using here is justified because it informs us about the motivations of the people carrying out these actions, and motivations are important. certain attributes may be entirely contingent, sex, hair colour, skin colour, what they had for breakfast that day, etc. - they have no bearing on the reasons those actions were carried out. other attributes are important in a causal sense though; and when it comes to terrorism, ideological attributes are chief among these causal attributes. as I explained before, for an IRA terrorist religious doctrine was not a causal attribute, that was stuff like anti-colonialism, Marxism, etc., but for an Islamist terrorist religious doctrine is extremely important (along with anti-colonialism and other political factors - I’m not claiming it’s the sole justification), failure to recognise this is just willful ignorance at this point.

What you are failing to recognise is that Robert Lewis Dear does not speak for me, whites, or males. Seriously. Fuck that guy. He’s a terrorist who is white and male, but he didn’t practice “white male terrorism”.

the semantic point you’re making is invalid as well. a religion cannot do anything

Then why are you insisting on ‘Islamic terrorism’?

and there is no “leader” of Islam.

No shit, Sherlock. Not only do you disagree with your own definition, the definition is worthless to boot.

if somebody draws an inference about all Muslims from my categorisation of an individual terrorist who happens to be a Muslim then they’re a bigot, and an illogical one at that, but that’s their problem.

“I’m sorry you were offended” has always been a terrible nopology.