RE: UK to leave EU
June 29, 2016 at 2:45 pm
(This post was last modified: June 29, 2016 at 2:47 pm by Excited Penguin.)
(June 29, 2016 at 2:16 pm)abaris Wrote:(June 29, 2016 at 2:10 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: To be fair, Islamophobia is a bullshit term, people should be suspicious of muslim immigrants, and there's nothing wrong with that given the facts as they are.
This statement is the living proof of Islamophobia not being a bullshit term. I be suspicious of people if they give me reason to. Not because of their place of birth, their color of skin or their religion.
Just today I had a good long talk with our maintenance guy. Young man from Pakistan, just learning german, but fluent in english. I talked to him because I was interested how he came to leave his country. Might some people do some good to do the same instead of just giving them the eye. They're people, you know. They are able to talk and they often tell a story none of us ever experienced. And thankfully so.
Notice how a religion talks about your cultural heritage, preferred thoughts and ideas and potential behaviour in a way that color of skin or place of birth couldn't. Let's not mix those up, I'm sure it's easy to do so.
Now let's break down the word Islamophobia. It means irrational fear of Islam. Is it really irrational to fear Islam more than, say, Judaism, at this point in history? It is objectively not. There is a huge problem with Islam at the moment in a way that probably all other religions combined aren't. One way or another, it needs to be dealt with before it gets completely out of hand and the proverbial regressive leftist like yourself has nothing left to do but wallow in their own complete ineffectiveness, failure and misappropriation of resources because you're more concerned with either seeking redemption for the crime of being born white in a first world country or, even more sinisterly, striving to appear to be doing something rather than actually doing something, which, of course, is a lot easier and it pays better in the short run.
As for your story there, I have no fucking clue what relevance it has to the matter at hand, unless he's muslim. In which case, I think you'd probably want to ask him if he'd wish to live in a society where you would be condemned for being an atheist. And other such questions, I'm sure you can think of them if you really want to. If he appears to sincerely answer them satisfactorily then you can tell me he's as harmless as your average Christian.
There are potentially reformist muslims, ex-muslims, and various other threatened minorities in the muslim world who actually need our help, and we are not helping them by pretending that that which makes their life hell isn't actually a problem and should be treated with the utmost delicacy. See, this, is simply the product of leading a life devoid of the violence and problems imposed by religious maniacs - your attitude towards this problem, that is. Herein lies the wonder of the regressive mind.