RE: Europe is under attack and invasion
November 14, 2015 at 1:11 pm
(This post was last modified: November 14, 2015 at 1:18 pm by Regina.)
(November 14, 2015 at 10:26 am)Evie Wrote: I totally think this is religiously motivated, I just think that it would be immoral to stop protecting refugees in an attempt to catch more terrorists. Saving the innocent is paramount and that includes innocent refugees.
Being anti-Islam isn't xenophobic or racist at all, indeed. It's when someone doesn't seem to give a shit about any innocent refugees (whether they are Muslims or not is irrelevant) that I suspect racism is involved and xenophobia certainly seems part of it in that case.
The problem is that people can't distinguish between Islam as a personal belief and Islam as a political ideology. That's when you get this conflation between people and culture. The left wing are just as guilty of this conflation as the right-wing are, because by defending culture over people, they set out a lower standard of human rights for anyone labelled as a Muslim (which is anyone from the Middle East really, irrespective of religion or lack thereof). In this sense, the left-wing are just as guilty of "racism" towards people perceived to be Muslim than the right-wing.
Your "right to religion", in a secular society, should end at your personal life choices. Nobody should be budging on that standard, whether we're talking Islam, Christianity or any other faith.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie