Conservatives do understand why liberals downplay Islamic violence, right?

[Pedro de San Patricio]

I mean, I hope. It should be pretty obvious that you'd want to neutralize any legitimacy your enemy has in the eyes of the people. It should also be obvious that, right now, they're winning the propaganda war. Part of the reason why they're winning is that they've largely successfully framed the war as religious and the Western democracies as the forces of the Antichrist to the average Muslim. Part of the reason they've succeeded in this is the sheer number of polarizing conservatives constantly antagonizing the average Muslim and demonizing the religion he holds dearer than his own life. This is not going to defeat them. This is going to strengthen their case and make it that much easier for them to obtain sympathy, recruits, and resources, as well as push away those Muslims who would otherwise be inclined to support us. It's only by taking the dishonest route and pretending - with much force and repetition - that the war is not in any way religious in nature and our enemies do not represent the Islam of Muhammad in its purest form that we can have any hope of reversing the damage and degrading their legitimacy.

 

[midcan5]

Your use of pronouns confuses the heck outta me? Not sure what the point is?

 

[Luddly Neddite]

What he meant to write is

Dems/Libs understand why RWs lie about President Obama bombing and killing terrorists.

 

[Pedro de San Patricio]

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We have been at war with various fundamentalist Muslim factions for approximately twenty years now. We've been actively participating in that war for about fifteen. A major source of legitimacy with the wider Muslim community has been propaganda. They frame it as a religious war against the house of the Antichrist and proclaim themselves the most authentic form of their religion. They have experienced much success against us in the propaganda front. One thing that has hurt our side is that many of our more conservative citizens are essentially agreeing with them that they're practicing Islam as it was meant to be practiced and demonizing the Muslim community for this. Our top leadership and left wing have been doing what they can to oppose and minimize their success in this by arguing that their fundamentalist form of Islam is a false and twisted interpretation of Qur'an and sunnah and the efforts of those anti-Islam conservatives are not remotely helping. We need to strengthen this narrative that they do not represent the real Islam if we are to degrade their ability to influence minds, recruit, and gather funds and supplies. I'm trying to explain that the dishonesty is necessary to those conservatives so that they will stop actively making our jobs harder.