the problem is that "Xians" perceive "their own group" as diverse--that is, some christians see themselves as different from falwell--so long as the comparison is internal to christianity. the way "islamo-fascism" is portrayed by the college republicans, the bush administration, and too many others who get a lot of press coverage, covers up diversity within islam, and portrays practitioners of that faith as a homogeneous (and "dangerous," "fascist"--nevermind that facism is a form of government) group, as "Them." what gets covered up is not the "very dangerous strain of islamist belief," but the diversity of islamist belief; and, in the comparison, the very dangerous strains of christian belief get covered up as well, in the interest of fostering a kind of solidarity among christians as against islam.
(i'm leaving aside, for now, the slide between "college republicans," which by its name is ostensibly a secular, political organization, and "christians," which is obviously a collection of many different religious belief systems.
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Date: 2007-10-23 12:21 am (UTC)(i'm leaving aside, for now, the slide between "college republicans," which by its name is ostensibly a secular, political organization, and "christians," which is obviously a collection of many different religious belief systems.