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In reply to the discussion: No Muslim family should engage in birth control: Turkey's Erdogan [View all]Igel
(35,309 posts)It works here, with Erdogan--it's what Erdogan says, more or less, and there aren't good alternative explanations.
It's also why anti-vaccination drives in Pakistan and Afghanistan ran into armed opposition; after the CIA "thing" looking for bin Ladin that was the excuse offered to/by Western journalists and activists, but for the decade before that (and in sources after that) the claim was that the vaccinations would sterilize Muslim women so that Islam would be weakened and they could be easily conquered.
The "Alex Jones" view is the same thinking, assuming that there must be a war between Islam and the West and that the West is always plotting, scheming, and planning on how to win it. Western journalists and activists feed this view but couch it in terms of "imperialism" while making sure everybody knows that once * used the word "crusader."