IMHO medieval brainwashing is wrong regardless of what form it wears. The problem I've seen is that when people try to find examples of it, what they end up finding is essentially something that is not what they say it is. In the instance of people like that guy in Yemen, there is a good reason to go after those people, because they're a threat to the state. I know I go after Christian fundamentalists more than I do Islamists, but that's because to me there are a lot more Christian fundamentalists that keep voting in policies that go somewhere, like those people in North Dakota, than there are Muslim fundamentalists in the United States.
So in truth if there were Muslim madrassas teaching the equivalent Islamist ideas to this, I would oppose them as inflexibly as I do Christian schools that teach the KKK was wonderful and the Leviathan, multiple heads and fire breath and all, actually existed.
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Date: 1/4/13 03:47 (UTC)So in truth if there were Muslim madrassas teaching the equivalent Islamist ideas to this, I would oppose them as inflexibly as I do Christian schools that teach the KKK was wonderful and the Leviathan, multiple heads and fire breath and all, actually existed.