Criticizing Islam is racist?

[abaris]

I'm not completely buying into this distinguishing between Islam and Muslims thing.

If there were no Muslims there wouldn't be any Islam.

if there were no Christians there wouldn't be any Christianity.

But I do. I don't blame any religious person for what their radicals do. I blame them if they actually are radicals. Anything else is bigotry to me. Making blanket statements about any given group is bigotry and ultimately dangerous. It's the very reason why I don't have any extended family anymore. And I never will respect anyone doing it. Call it racism, call it anything else, it's just semantics. The underlying feeling when making blanket statements is one of exclusion and one of better off if they didn't exist.