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By Najla Turk, published 16/2/2017I am your ordinary, middle-class, working mother that happens to be a practising Muslim who profoundly opposes terrorism and is ardently seeking harmony.
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You are now trying to justify your attitude that the individual members of white extremist organisations can be condemned individually, but that the individual members of a non white extremist organization can not be condemned individually. I think that most people would find such a premise potty, especially coming from somebody who claims to be anti racist.
Because of your unwillingness to write a reasoned argument who's chain of logic we can all examine, I am forced to do the job myself by joining together all of your disjointed ramblings and sneery one liners, which give some indication of your muddled thought processes.
You appear to be implying that Nazi and Klan values and attitudes are monolithic, and every tenet of whatever unwritten ideology they possess is universally accepted by every individual member to exactly the same degree. Which is odd when you admitted that you are not even sure of what it is that they believe in. I think that most people would laugh at that one Most people can understand that within every group of people united by an ideology that has ever existed throughout human history, there has never been universal acceptance of that ideology. Schisms, dissenters and heretics always appear.
There is no "fundamental difference" between any extremist organisation, they are all in fact similar in their authoritarianism, hostility to outsiders, and intolerance of dissent. What applies to Nazis and Klansmen not only applies equally to Muslims, it applies to every group of people united by an ideology, especially an extremist ideology. Therefore, if individual Nazis and Klansmen can be condemned by their group associations, then Muslims can too. Your attitude is a clear double standard anchored in racial discrimination.
To summarise. I may not put people into "boxes", but you can. I may not prejudge and stereotype people, but you can. Muslims do not all think exactly alike, but all Nazis and Klansmen think exactly alike, even though you are not even sure of what it is they believe in. Whites may be condemned by their group associations, but non whites can not