Ontario Passes Anti-Islamophobia Bill

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Personally, as someone whose position is one of  Anti-Theism, it is troubling to me on multiple levels.

Insert jew into all the anti islamic comments and you might get what this is aiming at. It's got nothing to do with religion but everything with broad brushing an entire group just for belonging to that group.

I think that should be obvious, given what happens for quite some time now.

100% Disagree.


This is a blanket comment that lumps racists  in with critics.


Lots of groups do things that merit criticism.

And it has everything to do with religion.

I mentioned above that I don't like religion, as a rule;
and I gave my reason why;

I also went on to acknowledge that the rules of some groups are demonstrably more noxious
than the rules of other groups.

I don't find the rules of Sikhism or Hinduism or Buddhism draw as much fire to themselves
as the rules of Sharia, for example.

You don't hear of many International Fatwas being put out by Buddhists, after all.

I acknowledged that Judaism does not seek to recruit,
the way Islam and Christianity do,
and that is one of my biggest beefs with those religions,
especially given that they seek to recruit into a religion with plenty of other malignant ideas.

It is NOT a simple case of "othering", abaris.


LOTS of Trump supporters in the States are also Anti-Black Lives Matter, Anti-LGBTQ, Anti-Feminism, "Pro-Life" (anti-abortion), and against any number of other groups...because they rabidly engage in "othering".

I find their POV mindless, hypocritical, and indefensible.

And I have to agree that their Islamophobia is mostly fear-fuelled racism;


However,


It is dangerous to make it simply politically incorrect...or worse, illegal...to specifically criticize a group...

(or to criticize a specific motion to pass a bill specifically protecting that group,
when such blanket protections already exist)

...because if you DO criticize that group, you will simply have a label slapped onto you that you must be a racist,
or you must be a Trump supporter...when your reasons are very different.