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Comment by hk__2

11 years ago 

    > Because the last notepad++ version (6.7.4) named "JE SUIS CHARLIE" !
    > So you think that Islam is terrorist !

I don’t understand the transition between these two lines.

You’ll also note the space before punctuation marks, which is typical of French speakers writing in English (e.g. “something !” instead of “something!”). This is not a surprise, since those who defaced the site claim to be from Tunisia, a country where most of the population speak French.

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cbd1984  11 years ago

> I don’t understand the transition between these two lines.

To the rational mind, there isn't one.

To the paranoid, conspiracist, conspiracy-theory-believing mind which sees plots behind every bush and believes whole groups of people can be defined the way you define individuals, it's obvious: You're against an action done by members of a group (as they define it), so you must hate that group the way you hate the people who did the action, so you must be a member of a group which conspires to hurt their group. Note how they immediately drug Israel into the discussion; to some conspiracy theorists, Israel is Pure Evil manifest on Earth, causing endless trouble for all good and righteous human beings, so everyone who is against them must have been duped by Israel and Jews in general.

This is by no means limited to Muslim nutballs, BTW. Alex Jones frequently goes on anti-Zionist tirades, where "Zionist" is his code for "Jew" in markets where blatant antisemitism doesn't sell very well. A lot of 9/11 "truthers" also believe Israel is involved as well, because anything which makes any group of Muslims look bad must have been done by the enemies of Muslims, the Jews. Yes, that's pretty much the depth of their analysis.

agumonkey  11 years ago

Are you sure about the punctuation argument ?

  • TisButMe  11 years ago

    I'm French, I think I can speak/write English reasonably well, but I still have to correct myself sometimes over punctuations rules, yes. The rule I was taught is "every punctuation character that has a part over the writing line has a space before it".

  • dguaraglia  11 years ago

    I've never seen that, and I have a bunch of French friends I communicate with in writing in a regular basis.