wear green wednesday

[arguchik]

if you're going to be on a college campus wednesday--especially one with a college republicans chapter that plans to observe islamo-fascism awareness week (that includes UW)--wear a green t-shirt to show solidarity with muslim students (and, by extension, opposition to the college republican douchebags). according to the seattle times article i linked to in the previous sentence, the UW muslim students association will be handing out green armbands, and is encouraging people to wear green, because green is a color traditionally associated with islam. it is important to send the message back to college republicans and allied groups that their attempts to foster fear, hatred, and intolerance of islam and of muslim people, are unacceptable and ineffective.

michael medved will be speaking on the UW campus in association with "islamo-fascist awareness week," hosted by the UW college republicans--thursday evening, 7pm, at kane hall. keep your eyes peeled. perhaps there will be a protest.

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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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i should also add that the "slide" i allude to at the end is analogous to the slide from islam to fascism.