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[–]Maeven 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is very important!

Islam bashing was cranked up by conservatives to a truly ugly extreme and linked to support for violent overthrow of countries which the right has always wanted to invade anyway, because of realpolitik. Once it became a reality, the liberals were forced to go in the opposite direction and suppress criticism (more realpolitik).