heh, when 9/11 happened I had just started at a sixth-form that was maybe about 20% Muslim (my previous schools had all been extremely white & rural, so this was new on me socially & culturally, though my parents had a few Muslim friends). So in that time right afterwards, when the news media was still only just starting to seize on OBL as their boogeyman, I got to listen to many fascinating discussions/arguments between Muslims of different factions, and sometimes between Muslims and others, about what had happened. The one I'm most reminded of here was probably later the same week as 9/11, right before a Politics class; our teacher walked in in the middle of it and one of the participants (a fairly traditionalist Muslim) wound up saying to him that she didn't see how a Muslim could have done this. /face.palm.
I don't think the GOP are totally to blame for the boogeyman-ising of OBL...it seems like it's been a fairly equal opportunity media sport, on both sides of the Atlantic. I was in Atlanta when he died and was working an early-morning shift, and I felt sick when someone told me, because I knew I was surrounded by white Republicans who were going to be celebrating it, and by then I had this general dread of the culture around me (hence why we moved up to Boston earlier this year). tl;dr america on a revenge bender is awesome. :/
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Date: 2012-12-06 05:53 pm (UTC)I don't think the GOP are totally to blame for the boogeyman-ising of OBL...it seems like it's been a fairly equal opportunity media sport, on both sides of the Atlantic. I was in Atlanta when he died and was working an early-morning shift, and I felt sick when someone told me, because I knew I was surrounded by white Republicans who were going to be celebrating it, and by then I had this general dread of the culture around me (hence why we moved up to Boston earlier this year). tl;dr america on a revenge bender is awesome. :/