Attn: Special Announcement

[guardian795]

I'd like to share something with all of you that I was shown in my US Government class today. For the sake of open discussion, this post has been unlocked.

I'd like for you to take 10 minutes and watch this video. Watch the whole thing, please.

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[losers_day]

Something rubs me the wrong way about the fact that they keep mixing up the concept of nationality and the concept of religious affiliation. :/

I really hate the message it seems to be promoting. "A call to action"? What could anyone do really, aside from either a) trying to kill Muslims or b) trying to convert them. But b is problematic because unless you WIPE OUT THEIR ENTIRE CULTURE it'll won't actually solve the supposed "problem" of immigration, so this whole video leaves me feeling uneasy. alskdjlas ;;;

But they're skewing everything in their favor, so at the very least it feels really inaccurate on a billion different levels.

[ration]

lmfao "there are over one-thousand mosques... Many of them, former churches." I like the dramatic pause there.

I thought I'd be offended or angered by this, on account of pretty much all of my dad's family over here being Muslim immigrants from Pakistan. But all it's done really is reaffirm my distaste for religion (though fundamentalist twats would find a way to be prejudiced dickbags without it, so maybe that's a moot point) and make me laugh at the sheer ignorance involved. I pretty much can't think of anything to comment on in that respect that elvenpath or fenrisulfr hasn't already. (Especially the stuff on pronunciation dhsjkfd /pet peeve)

tbh I'm more interested in the socioeconomic effects of a rapidly growing minority (south Asians, rather than Muslims specifically) in areas that are taught to view them as enemies and treat them accordingly. Though I suppose I won't be getting any large amounts of food for thought on that issue from this video.