RE: Looks As If Turkey Is Going Down The Shitter, Too
June 18, 2016 at 8:34 pm
(This post was last modified: June 18, 2016 at 8:37 pm by Regina.)
I don't like the term "Islamophobia" because it stigmatises criticism against the religion itself, which is sorely needed at this point in time. It's also one of those generic ad hominem silencer buzzwords (same with "Homophobia" and "transphobia") that's just fashionable to throw around now instead of making a real argument. "Anti-Muslim sentiment" would be better for discrimination against Muslims.
I feel like this "double standard" regarding Islam and Christianity goes both ways depending on whether you're listening to the Left wing or the Right wing. Everyone seems to have a different opinion, there's some who love Christianity while bashing Islam, and there's also some who knock Christianity and then defend Islam whatever it's adherents do. It's not a one-sided thing. If there's any "double standard" or extra attention Islam gets, it's because Islam has absolutely unrivaled power compared to any other religion today (even Christianity) and the lack of secularism within a lot of "Islamic societies" is a very real cause for concern.
I feel like this "double standard" regarding Islam and Christianity goes both ways depending on whether you're listening to the Left wing or the Right wing. Everyone seems to have a different opinion, there's some who love Christianity while bashing Islam, and there's also some who knock Christianity and then defend Islam whatever it's adherents do. It's not a one-sided thing. If there's any "double standard" or extra attention Islam gets, it's because Islam has absolutely unrivaled power compared to any other religion today (even Christianity) and the lack of secularism within a lot of "Islamic societies" is a very real cause for concern.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"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
"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


