Counter-jihad literature reduces Islam to a four-part atrocity acronym

Evidence

As the titles of their books suggest, these writers share a similar perspective on Islam, the essential characteristics of which were summed up by Bostom under the acronym ‘MPED’ – massacre, pillage, enslavement and deportation. — Matt Carr, You Are Now Entering Eurabia, 47

Categorization

  • DEFINE: MPED — massacre, pillage, enslavement, deportation — is the four-word shorthand the movement uses to define an entire religion.
  • XREF: Echoes scholarly work on how polemical acronyms do the work of argument by compression.