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gabeana

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Sun Aug 13, 2017, 06:02 PM Aug 2017

Wow Alt-Right uses ISIS as inspiration

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/his-kampf/524505/

Spencer began by complimenting my reporting for this magazine on the Islamic State. “Your articles on isis have been popular on the alt-right,” he told me.

I winced: Anti-Muslim bigots liked that I had described isis as an Islamic movement, linked to traditions within Islam. “Is that because you hate Muslims?,” I asked.

“No,” he said. “Because isis is an identity movement. Because they have ideas, and because you wrote about their ideas. Also, they are a grassroots movement. They’ve built themselves up fast, from nothing.”

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Wow Alt-Right uses ISIS as inspiration (Original Post) gabeana Aug 2017 OP
Extremist hate groups uppityperson Aug 2017 #1
fox news gabeana Aug 2017 #2
Far from the first time these righties have found inspiration from Islamist terrorists ck4829 Aug 2017 #3
thanks for providing the link gabeana Aug 2017 #4
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