Interesting article, showing how treating Muslims as non-loyal to a country is the same bullshit already done against Catholics, Jews and other religions in USA.
Interesting article, showing how treating Muslims as non-loyal to a country is the same bullshit already done against Catholics, Jews and other religions in USA.
This article seems to gloss over that the rhetorical use of the “dual loyalty” trope is specifically to create a situation where a person or group will be expected to defend themselves from a charge that was not brought forward through evidence and will be impossible to disprove.
That’s not what “dual loyalty” is talking about. Dual loyalty is a way to paint a person or a group as an infiltrator from another country actively working against the interests of the country where they currently reside or as a sleeper agent waiting for orders to begin working against the country they currently live in. It absolutely is not about what type of food you eat or what day of the week you go to religious services.
This is the only useful paragraph in the entire article and its the second paragraph from the end. AND IT STILL forgets to add that the “dual loyalty” accusation does not require any proof from the accuser that the accused is a foreign agent.
By limiting the majority of the examples of dual loyalty accusations to religion, this article is ignoring that Israel is an actual country (and not a religion) that is deploying dual loyalty not as way to accuse some internal group of being a threat but of keeping external groups supporting whatever Israel is doing in support of ANYTHING that Israel is doing for fear of being labeled an anti-Semite or a “self hating Jew”.
The very first paragraph, that doesn’t lead to mentioning that there are Israel lobbying groups active in the USA that have direct lines to politicians. Those lobbying groups are actively wanting there to be dual loyalty because it gives the nation of Israel friends within the USA government willing to work towards aiding Israel in its goals and projects.
I liked this article because it’s the First time I get to know the concept of “dual loyality”, but your comment make it even better!!
Thanks.
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