Criticizing Islam is racist?

[abaris]

This seems to come up if you ever critize Islam.

No, it comes up whenever you make no distinction between Islam and Muslim. And the racist part, if point one is checked, is merely semantics. It's taking the semantic backdoor to weasel out of one's bigotry to say, they're not a race.

Racist may be the wrong word, but it certainly fits the underlying emotions.