Dawaa and grooming
OP - November 19, 2014, 10:33 AM
A comment in another thread struck me.
It described the process of getting someone to convert by showing them the nice bits and only later gradually introducing other stuff, maybe showing one's hand once someone marries or converts, and even then continuing the process, the example of hitting and slapping was given.
Isn't this identical to grooming?
Do we actually have a population who are practiced at dissimulation and who are well able to use these skills in other areas? They may also be able to use religious justifications - the others are kaffir, infested by demons.
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.
A.A. Milne,
"We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"