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Originally Posted by HarryT
I don't have the slightest issue with what you describe; what I do have a very real issue with is an author seemingly going out of his way to "demonise" a group of "real" people. These books (which I bought both of) appear to me to be quite deliberately setting out to incite hatred and fear of Islam. I can see no redeeming feature whatsoever in them. As has been said already, had their "target" been Jews or black people, I very much doubt that Baen would have touched them with a barge-pole, but seemingly it's "OK" to incite hatred against Muslims.
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I haven't read the books, so I can't directly comment on them, however, I would point out that there is a flaw in your comparison. Islam is by definition defined by what its followers believe. Obviously that is not true of black people and in practice isn't true of Jewish people either (I know plenty of agnostic and atheistic Jews, while the very concept of an atheistic Muslim makes no sense).
Certainly one can say that modern Islam is not the same as it was in the past just as you can say that Modern Christianity is not the same as it was in the past. I think though we find that the many right wingers dispute whether Islam has really changed (and certainly in some parts of the world it appears not to have) and many left wingers dispute that Christianity has changed.
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Bill