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Also, I have plenty of friends radicalized by youtube into hardcore islamophobia which they hadn't exhibited before.

My father's the same. He'll walk along through town minding his own business, and then see someone he thinks is a Muslim. That's when the shouting begins.

I feel sorry for you. In my experience, there is little you can do to change the mind of such a person, and yet living with them can be constant embarrassment.

It is really easy for far right media to cherry pick stories like this: http://time.com/5214563/parents-attacked-16-year-old-daughte...

I can just as easily find news articles about thousands of white women who are killed by their WASP husbands in the USA, but those are, from the xenophobe perspective, a relatively mundane occurrence.

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