Justin Mohn, a 32-year-old Pennsylvania man, is in police custody after allegedly murdering and decapitating his father, claiming the latter was a “federal employee” and a “traitor.” Before his arrest, Mohn posted a 14-minute video to YouTube in which he displayed his father’s severed head, proclaiming: "This is the head of Mike Mohn, a federal
It’s interesting, for sure. It’s not Islamophobic to note the similarities between Islamic states, Islamic radicalism, and Islamic jihad and Republican law policies, right-wing nationalism, and fundamentalist Christian radicalism. There are many parallels between the Taliban and the US far-right.
It’s easy to equate Islam with IS; Christians with Republicans; and Judaism with Israel, because the latter in each case is based in the former. When extremism appropriates symbology and weaponizes religion, it gets really hard to have conversations without slipping. And when, in particular, you have a community who faced an foe that appropriated a particular phrase as a battle cry before executing violence, it’s a natural reaction to associate that phrase with The Enemy.
Is it islamophobic? For sure. Does it also convey an easily understandable equivalency between the worst elements of two extremist movemets? I think it does. Is it technically accurate (“Trump is great!”)? Sure, it is. Were you also trolling, and therefore worthy of downvotes? Abso-fucking-lutely.