# Is a CounterJihad forming in the West?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-counterjihad-forming-in-the-west/438000>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [February 17, 2008, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-counterjihad-forming-in-the-west/438000 "2008-02-17T18:40:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-counterjihad-forming-in-the-west/438000/81 "2008-02-19T22:43:02Z")

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[QUOTE=Ulla Underfunded]  
I worry just as much about all “Ture Believers”  
Doesn’t have to be Moonies or Jim Jones types.  
**Any missionary of any demnomination gives me a chill.  
Pass out medicine and bibles?**  
Not my idea of charity.  
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This is fear-mongering. Missionaries have done untold good works for the poor, sick, very young and very old across the globe. The help they provide is free, no conversion necessary, and consists of feeding and housing the poor, as well as distributing necessary medicines and teaching indiginous peoples how to farm, herd, irrigate, etc, etc.  
So what if they ask you to listen about Jesus. You can always refuse and still receive the aid.

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**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-counterjihad-forming-in-the-west/438000/82 "2008-02-19T23:59:24Z")

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[QUOTE=Bridget Burke]  
I’ve seen no evidence of a counter-Jihad movement. Just a bunch of bitter, frightened xenophobes hunched over their PC’s.  
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Like Geert Wilders Parliamentarian of Holland?

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**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-counterjihad-forming-in-the-west/438000/83 "2008-02-20T00:30:28Z")

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[QUOTE=Valteron]  
So it is just 3 families in Linz who demanded that all teachers should wear the hijab? How many was it in Linz 10 years ago?  
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By Golly, he’s got something here. By my calculations, that’s an increase of _infinity percent_. Counter-Jihad, here I come!

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