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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHouse Republican calls for mass killing of radicalized Islamicsuspects
Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins (R) responded to an attack in downtown London over the weekend by calling for a mass extrajudicial killing of people suspected of adhering to radicalized Islam.
Not one penny of American treasure should be granted to any nation who harbors these heathen animals. Not a single radicalized Islamic suspect should be granted any measure of quarter, he wrote. Hunt them, identify them, and kill them. Kill them all. For the sake of all that is good and righteous. Kill them all.
Notably, Higgins advocated for the killing of anyone even suspected of having links to terrorism, and gave no definition of how that should be determined. He described the fight as a war between Christendom and Islamic horror, echoing a rallying cry of the far-right.
Such black-and-white rhetoric also dovetails with one of ISIS stated goals: To divide the world into two camps, those who believe their ideology and everyone else. In so doing, they aim to eliminate the grey zone and convince other Muslims that their faith is unwelcome and incompatible with the West, radicalizing them.
https://thinkprogress.org/house-republican-calls-for-mass-killing-of-radicalized-islamic-suspects-19824a1dbbd0
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)bdamomma
(64,001 posts)fucked up, then we will be no better than the terrorists. Such ignorance. Repigs are filthy people.
DBoon
(22,451 posts)Sometimes I wonder who really won the second world war
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And a comedian with a bloody rubber mask is supposed to be offensive?
sinkingfeeling
(51,515 posts)spanone
(136,012 posts)PBass
(1,537 posts)maxrandb
(15,439 posts)oh, wait...I think I hear that everyday on Hate Radio.
I hate these fuckers for what they've done to my country!
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)orangecrush
(19,707 posts)Will be blowhards.
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