In addition to the what AllAmericanBreakfast said, the issue with “all Muslims are complicit in terrorism unless they loudly and publicly condemn terrorism” is that
a. not all terrorism is committed by Muslims.
b. The shared notion between a) Islamic terrorist and b) normal guy who happens to be Muslim is that they share a belief in the “the will of God”, and they have deferring notions about what the will of God tells them to do.
c. In contrast, (at least in AllAmericanBreakfast’s telling)”the establishment” specifically appeals to the bioethics illusion in their choice to be conservative and allowing people to die by omission. The appropriate comparison might instead be a Muslim imam [1]whose teachings were specifically cited by terrorists as a justification for terror and who chose not to condemn terror (or alternatively, blaming God himself, assuming God is real).
I think this is reasonable. I think it’s also reasonable to assign partial blame to Karl Marx (and contemporary Marxist scholars and firebrands) for the failures of the Soviet Union, and it’s reasonable to assign a small amount of blame to Nietzsche and Kant (as well as contemporary scholars who did not disavow such actions) for the harms of Nazi Germany. Or closer to home, if animal rights terrorism are conducted in the name of Peter Singer, it’s reasonable to assign partial blame to Singer for his speech acts, and especially if he does not disavow such terrorism.
Though that comparison is not exact either, since the illusion is not propagated by individual bioethicists so much as the field overall. So perhaps it’s closer to whether Muslim imams overall have a duty to disavow terror, and I think this is also reasonable (I’d say the same thing about contemporary Marxist scholars re: Stalin and Nietzsche scholars re: Hitler).
In addition to the what AllAmericanBreakfast said, the issue with “all Muslims are complicit in terrorism unless they loudly and publicly condemn terrorism” is that
a. not all terrorism is committed by Muslims.
b. The shared notion between a) Islamic terrorist and b) normal guy who happens to be Muslim is that they share a belief in the “the will of God”, and they have deferring notions about what the will of God tells them to do.
c. In contrast, (at least in AllAmericanBreakfast’s telling)”the establishment” specifically appeals to the bioethics illusion in their choice to be conservative and allowing people to die by omission. The appropriate comparison might instead be a Muslim imam [1]whose teachings were specifically cited by terrorists as a justification for terror and who chose not to condemn terror (or alternatively, blaming God himself, assuming God is real).
I think this is reasonable. I think it’s also reasonable to assign partial blame to Karl Marx (and contemporary Marxist scholars and firebrands) for the failures of the Soviet Union, and it’s reasonable to assign a small amount of blame to Nietzsche and Kant (as well as contemporary scholars who did not disavow such actions) for the harms of Nazi Germany. Or closer to home, if animal rights terrorism are conducted in the name of Peter Singer, it’s reasonable to assign partial blame to Singer for his speech acts, and especially if he does not disavow such terrorism.
Though that comparison is not exact either, since the illusion is not propagated by individual bioethicists so much as the field overall. So perhaps it’s closer to whether Muslim imams overall have a duty to disavow terror, and I think this is also reasonable (I’d say the same thing about contemporary Marxist scholars re: Stalin and Nietzsche scholars re: Hitler).