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Islamist is a standard term refering to proponents if Islamism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamism). Maybe you're arguing at the author was using it in an inappropriate context but to imply that the word itself somehow not PC frankly shows that you know very little about his mom and countries and are probably not from one. If you were you would see it differently.

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The genocide in Gaza doesn't have anything to do with "Islamism", it's about land theft, ethnic cleansing, apartheid and sovereignty for indigenous Palestinians. Zionists are also murdering Christians. I'm an atheist and view Israel as my enemy. The only religious extremist ideology at play here is Jewish supremacy.

Thos is a gross simplification of things. Hamas is specifically an Ilamist political movement and an outcrop of the Muslim Brotherhood political movement. I understand that for you it's a one-dimensional piberation movement but it behooves you to to deeper.

That's not relevant though, it's the Zionists that are the colonizers. Their victims could be of any religion or political movement, it doesn't change the nature of the genocide and apartheid committed by Israel and their allies.

An analogous situation would be like Nazis complaining about Roma. The Roma were the victims, their beliefs have nothing to do with the Nazi's genocide.

I see so colonizers cause genocides like e=mc^2. Colonizer bad. Others good. Got it thanks.

Yes, colonization is bad because ethnically cleansing indigenous people (not "others") and stealing their land is bad.

I take it you live in the old world?

I’m indigenous to the Americas, the scene of the largest crime in humanity’s history that Israel is now recreating several hundred years later.

I see. Are you indigenous to the part of the Americas you live in now? Do you consider yourself to be a member of the colonizer culture or your indigenous culture? Some kind of hybrid?

Yes, hybrid and I support land back (and reparations for Black Americans). It's not too late for the world to stop Israel from committing the same crimes, and in fact the world does seem to be (slowly) doing that.

So is "Jews" but yet, it's very suspicious when anyone in a political argument suddenly starts talking about "the Jews".

Wouldn't Zionist be a better parallel? Though I would argue that even then it's a bit different because most zionists do not espouse a particular Jewish rooted governance system whereas Islamism is specifically about an Islamic political model

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