RE: Muslim Imam calls for Homosexual death 3 weeks before pulse nigh club shooting
June 30, 2016 at 9:27 am
Veritas_Vincit Wrote:This is the symptom of the 'regressive liberal' concept of Islamophobia - the ingenious conflation of Racism and Religious Criticism. If anyone tries to criticize Islam they are automatically branded a racist xenophobic bigot, and shouted down without anyone having to actually confront their legitimate critique of this overtly homophobic religion. Islamophobia is a racist term! It affirms the notion that Islam is basically about Arabian and Pakistani people - they make it about race. Islam is NOT a race, it's a religion followed by people of all 'racial' types.
Donald Trump is winning because of this - the "You're just a racist!" Islamophobia knee-jerk reaction to any criticism of Islam means that anyone who is genuinely concerned about it feels like nobody cares, and like they are being condescended to, and the only people who talk about their concerns and take them seriously are far-right extremists and genuine bigots like Donald Trump.
Yet Donald Trump is not actually winning.
For a more balanced analysis of Islamophobia (hint, if you're concerned that one percent of our population is going to impose Sharia law in the USA any year now, you're an Islamophobe):
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Islamophobi...lamophobia
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.