Quote (Neptunus @ Apr 13 2022 12:46am)
I mean im not even trying to be a Muslim apologist but that stuff looks like Nation of Islam which has very little to do with the Islam that is mainstream globally or even with Islamist terrorism. It's an American Black supremacy movement above else.
Black identity was the common theme through his videos going back 3 years, less of the nation of islam stuff than we get from true believer hakeem e. muhammed types like the jersey city shooters. Mostly its a bunch of insane ramblings by a black guy deep in psychosis, all about race and identity. I think the closest comparison is that MAGA bomber, someone who is obviously insane and latches onto cultural movements and identity politics, shaping their worldview to explain their circumstance as a result of some great conspiratorial grievance.
We had a few decades where there was a great amount of violent black crime and no shortage of radicalism among blacks, incredibly widespread even now, and yet the terrorism that defined the 1970s and the black panthers was oddly suppressed until recently. Then we started getting mass shootings and assassinations of police and whatnot inspired by the black lives matter movement. In that jersey city example, one of the most damning aspects of the 'lone wolf terrorist' attack was that in the immediate aftermath, a crowd of random black people from the neighborhood gathered to heckle the police and shout support for killing jews and blame them for their own being massacred. Anti-semitism and radicalism was so rife that you throw a stick in the air and it lands on someone happy to watch jews get killed in the name of some vague racial grievance. NYC sure had it bad across the bay, having to mobilize the NYPD en masse to protect jews from the random attacks that accelerated in those years.
So for a few decades, it seemed like the planning and execution of some mass shooting terrorist attack targeting random civilians for incoherent political motives was the exclusive domain of whitey mcwhitebread. But the most high profile incidents were more few and far between than we give it credit for, when you look at how frequent bombings and terrorism were under the black panthers. We're still pretty few and far between with BIE, but mass mob violence under BLM has completely warped the playing field