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Originally Posted by Abraham
@ scandium:
I find it difficult to follow this discussion.
Who uses rethoric? The Canadian Prime Minister? I only know that the chairman of the Canadian Islamic Congress did not quote him but edited him as: "to paint today’s arrests as a battle between “us” and “them”." That certainly sounds a bit rethoric to me, just as his next line: "Such statement puts all Canadian Muslims in great danger."...
And even if the Canadian P.M. made a distinction between "us" and "them", who did he mean?
Are "us" just the non-Muslim Canadians or all the decent, law abiding, hard working Muslim and non-Muslim citizens of Canada?
Are "them" all Canadian Muslims or just a bunch of radical totalitairian extremist Muslims?
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That is one of the problems with "us" and "them" rhetoric, you need to create nice neat little categories to put people into only to find that they often don't even fit into these categories. The "us" the PM is referring to are Canadians in general, the "them" he referred to were the 17 arrested, at least some of whom also happen to be Canadians. I dislike such rhetoric because I see the world in full colour and not black and white little categories, although this particular example of it is, in itself, trivial and not something I'll lose any sleep over.