Common cause of jihad and the Alt-Right

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"I pass on some clips from an essay by Scott Atran, who is the director of research in anthropology at the CNRS, École Normale Supérieure, and a senior research fellow at the University of Oxford.

Whether alt-Right or radical Islam, the values of liberal and open democracy increasingly appear to be losing ground around the world to those of narrow, xenophobic ethno-nationalisms and radical ideologies. ..According to the World Values Survey, the majority of Europeans do not believe that living in a democratic country is ‘absolutely important’ for them. ..in the US, political scientists Roberto Foa and Yascha Mounk find that nearly half of American citizens lack faith in democracy; more than one-third of young high-income earners actually favour army rule, presumably to halt rising social unrest linked to income inequality, job insecurity, and persistent failures in racial integration and cultural assimilation in an age of identity politics. "


http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2017/11 ... indBlog%29

Comparing radical islam to alt-right is a bad comparison.

Yeah you can't compare the alt right to people whose main goal in life is to brutally slaughter innocent people, so that's a silly article right out of the gate.

This is a pretty lame tactic I've seen used primarily on the left where they try to demonize their opponents to the point where they no longer have to intelligently debate them. I saw an article (I believe from Newsweek) detailing the similarities of how Charles Manson and Donald Trump developed their followings. They usually won't come out and say Trump is as bad as Hitler, but the goal is to have the reader forever associate the two.