Ontario Passes Anti-Islamophobia Bill

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Personally, as someone whose position is one of  Anti-Theism, it is troubling to me on multiple levels.

Insert jew into all the anti islamic comments and you might get what this is aiming at. It's got nothing to do with religion but everything with broad brushing an entire group just for belonging to that group.

I think that should be obvious, given what happens for quite some time now.

It's pretty different actually. For example one can be born a Jew, or you can be a secular Jew or even an Atheist Jew. Hating Jews is rarely about hating the religion of Judaism. None of those things apply to being a Muslim. I hate the religion of Islam. Some people try to twist that around and make it seem like a racial thing, even though there are plenty of white Muslims in the world, just as stupid and indoctrinated as the rest of them. Islam is not a race, but there is such a clear attempt to mask criticism of it as though it were a racial issue. It's not. Islam is not a race. I feel like that needs to be repeated until everybody finally understands.

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I prefer the term "anti-Muslim bigotry". That's what sensationalism and anti-immigrant sentiment is. There has to be criticism of ideas, religion does not deserve respect especially when it threatens peoples' safety. But if we're going to call out bigotry againt people who are Muslim, then I'm all for it.

Yea, but that's a distinction that's hardly made these days. Not at all, I would say.

If you haven't seen that as a distinction, then you willfully don't pay attention. Do you think people like Richard Dawkins, or Bill Maher or Ayaan Hirsi Ali critical of Islam because they are racists? Most of the criticism of it that I read is very clear on that distinction. Saying that the opposing side to your point of view is just a bunch of ignorant racists is the ultimate in lazy thinking and fear of actually confronting opposing viewpoints.