Re hate speech.
Is that really so different from how Americans would speak of Japanese or Germans during WW2? September 11th and the following years of the Bush Presidency really hammered into our psyche that America is at war. That our enemies are Islamic terrorists the world over.
Enter the Israel and Palestinian conflict. More of "our enemy" rearing its ugly head. As Germans elected a genocidal Nazi regime, Palestinians elected Hamas. They elected a militant leadership, which is likely to bring forth violence. How is it so far removed to say they brought this violence upon themselves? Seems entirely accurate whether it's German soldiers 70 years ago or Palestinian terrorists today.
They are going to pay a price for participating in a violent conflict that they escalated.
Now remember the "War on Terror" and extrapolate that notion out to the greater Muslim world. Nuclear proliferation continues to this day. Pakistan already has them. Is it not a logical conclusion that, should martyrs get ahold of WMDs, that this "war" would escalate further? Saying you think this ends in annihilation is entirely plausible.
Someone speaking on this subject who does not carefully chose his words is going to be open to attack. Intent can be masked by technicalities and interpretation. What you mean to say is often lost in translation when others read without full context. By the omission of a single word you can say can you wish to lay low all militant Germans from WW2... or all Germans. All Muslim extremists... or all Muslims.
Intent is everything, and context necessary to determine, yet our form of communication can be very sloppy and on such hot button topics you'll find people sniping others over the smallest of details. Over the years I have fallen into many traps with poorly chosen words which belie my intent, and I fear others make similar mistakes.
