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Originally Posted by mookiemookie
Because fear is used to control people, and making a large swath of the population fear Muslims is a good way to get people to embrace your ideas. Paint boogeymen in every corner and tell people you can protect them from the monsters and you've got it made.
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Well, be fair now. Islam has done a good job all of it's own accord to instill fear. September 11th hijacking, beheadings, honor killings, rioting over political cartoons, etc. The US is predominately jedochristian. Evangelicalism has a strong footing in much of the US these days. Evangelicals have zero tolerance to anyone who believes differently then they do. Combine that intolerance with the fear of Islam/Muslims, and to say Obama is Muslim is to say he's the anti-christ. A belief that many biblethumpers feel is true.
In other words, the word Muslim used in context with Obama is much like the hardline rightwingers rhetorical catcall of socalism or socalist used in other contexts.