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>>>>As for the shootings. Do yourself a favor and tell how many of the about 400 mass shootings THIS YEAR alone in the US were related to Muslim terrorism ?? That you had one last week doesn't make the other 399 go away does it ?
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>>>Walter, are you interested in talking about the demographics of the 399 mass shootings?
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>>read a - clearly slanted - commentary piece asking why the shootings of Islamic perps always are quickly labeled as terrorism, while actions against birth contol places, also from religuos motivations, seem not to evoke that label in the states. Question itself still has its merit, even if the source has beliefs not really in line with mine
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>I think that shootings and acts of violence at Planned Parenthood and abortion clinics are clearly acts of domestic terrorism. One of the benefits of being politically independent is that I have no fears or illusions that prevent calling something for what it is. There are multiple paths for the incubation of the kind of hatred that leads to the disregard of life.

I agree that that's terrorism. I think the point Walter was making is the narrative we hear. When a Muslim (or someone with a name that sounds Muslim) is involved, the incident is quickly reported as terrorism. When the shooter is white (the vast majority of mass shooters) and clearly not Muslim, the narrative is that he (and almost all mass shooters are "he") is mentally ill, and it's a struggle to get the word "terrorist" used.

Tamar