The process of hate creation
Direct incitement of violence against minority has been greatly reduced since the defeat of the
Islamic state. However indirect incitement of violence is much more common and much more
serious.
Calls for intolerance and segregation will eventually lead to hate and hate will eventually lead to
violence which can be sparked by any trivial events. Repeating the message of intolerance over years
in schools, mosques, social clubs, societies and social media would lead to segregation and exclusion
and dehumanisation of the minorities which would eventually end up in violence.
Repeating the massage of high moral standards of the Muslim believers and the immorality of the
non Muslim infidels would create a society of us and them. Us are the morally superior believers and
them are the infidels who have no honour or integrity. Such hate created by segregation and
exclusion has been the cause of wide spread violence against Christian minorities in the Middle East
even in absence of any direct call for violence. We have seen similar mechanism in the West. At the
time of Islamic state about 40% of them came from the west, many of them born and educated in
the West from middle class and effluent families however they ended up committing extreme
degree of violence against their own western countries for the same reasons.
The same mechanism of hate creation has also caused violence against Muslim minorities as it
happened in India and Myanmar.
It is important to be aware of the great potential of violence in the indirect incitement hidden in the
massage of intolerance and reluctance of integration in education and social media.
Dr Raafat Gendy for the Unite Copts of Great Britain
2/11/2020