Muslim Imam calls for Homosexual death 3 weeks before pulse nigh club shooting

[Brian37]

This is the symptom of the 'regressive liberal' concept of Islamophobia - the ingenious conflation of Racism and Religious Criticism. If anyone tries to criticize Islam they are automatically branded a racist xenophobic bigot, and shouted down without anyone having to actually confront their legitimate critique of this overtly homophobic religion. Islamophobia is a racist term! It affirms the notion that Islam is basically about Arabian and Pakistani people - they make it about race. Islam is NOT a race, it's a religion followed by people of all 'racial' types.

Donald Trump is winning because of this - the "You're just a racist!" Islamophobia knee-jerk reaction to any criticism of Islam means that anyone who is genuinely concerned about it feels like nobody cares, and like they are being condescended to, and the only people who talk about their concerns and take them seriously are far-right extremists and genuine bigots like Donald Trump.

Yet Donald Trump is not actually winning.

For a more balanced analysis of Islamophobia (hint, if you're concerned that one percent of our population is going to impose Sharia law in the USA any year now, you're an Islamophobe):

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Islamophobi...lamophobia

If critics of  Islam want to say the violence is real, sure. If they also want to claim it is religious based, I can agree with that too. But yea, only a fucking idiot thinks 1 billion people out of 7 billion total will take over the entire planet. The danger into buying into that paranoia is the same bullshit they fall for, and that is what can lead to global war. But if we can accept that there is no more room for any one group to expand, and this is the only rock all 7 billion humans have, no the violence wont completely go away, but we can at least avoid a worldwide global disaster in a global nuclear war.

I really hate it when westerners, including some atheists, falsely accuse me of coddling Quran justified violence. Nobody should condone that. But I do warn those in the west that scapegoating in the process of rightful criticism and blasphemy is simply not the solution to reduce religious violence.

It is simply not wise to take your eyes off of any religion, regardless of which volcano is more active. I think far too many in the west take secular law for granted. It still remains that the west became more civil in spite of Christianity, not because of it. All three religions of Abraham have holy books that depict the rival tribalism of the times in which they were respectively written. It is ok to go after bad ideas and bad claims, but to forget the origins of the social norms depicted in all three, is dangerous.

There never was such a thing as a "chosen people". That is literally the root cause of the divisions between the three. I think the more humans face that instead of dodging it, you still wont have a perfect utopia, but you can increase better conflict management.