RE: Ontario Passes Anti-Islamophobia Bill
February 28, 2017 at 1:37 pm
(This post was last modified: February 28, 2017 at 1:38 pm by Regina.)
I have a problem with wording.
"Islamophobia" is just a bullshit term. I'm a gay man, naturally I'm Islamophobic, the political aspect of this religion is an existential threat to my life and I'm damn justified in speaking out against that. If I can't have an honest conversation about the disapproval I have at people like me being executed in 10 countries, all of them countries which have Sharia Law applied in full, that's a serious issue.
I prefer the term "anti-Muslim bigotry". That's what sensationalism and anti-immigrant sentiment is. There has to be criticism of ideas, religion does not deserve respect especially when it threatens peoples' safety. But if we're going to call out bigotry againt people who are Muslim, then I'm all for it.
"Islamophobia" is just a bullshit term. I'm a gay man, naturally I'm Islamophobic, the political aspect of this religion is an existential threat to my life and I'm damn justified in speaking out against that. If I can't have an honest conversation about the disapproval I have at people like me being executed in 10 countries, all of them countries which have Sharia Law applied in full, that's a serious issue.
I prefer the term "anti-Muslim bigotry". That's what sensationalism and anti-immigrant sentiment is. There has to be criticism of ideas, religion does not deserve respect especially when it threatens peoples' safety. But if we're going to call out bigotry againt people who are Muslim, then I'm all for it.
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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
"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
