(March 23, 2019 at 7:43 am)Little lunch Wrote: The problem with Islamophobia is that the word is being used to shut up any complaint about Islam.
Look, almost every Muslim I've ever met has been a really nice person.
But the other day a Muslim co-worker accused me of being Islamophobic for complaining about not being able to take my clients to the toilet in the park because Muslims keep shitting and pissing on the toilet seats and don't bother to clean it up.
I asked him who he thinks is doing it then.
He said it was probably the aboriginals.
As well intended as liberals can be, I agree, but again, this isn't just about Islam. Liberals can get to be far too over protective, even with good intent, about any religion.
Tell a Buddhist that it is a religion and not a philosophy, they flip out. Point out that Myanmar's Buddhists have attacked and oppressed Muslims, you get called a bigot.
Criticize Israel for anything, suddenly you want Jews wiped off the map.
Tell either a conservative or liberal Christian there is no such thing as a magic baby, same thing.
Humans worldwide still need to do a far better job in general, in separating criticism and blasphemy from the separate issue of human rights which everyone should agree on.
Bigotry is unfortunately a real thing, and any sane person should combat that. But humans should at the same time, not fear being wrong and be willing to be introspective, even if the questioner is offending them. There is a difference between offending to make a valid point, and offending out of hate and fear.
I question even those I like, just like I love my late mother, but it would still bother me if she had went around saying repeatedly every day, "The Los Angeles Rams beat the Chicago Cubs in the NHL Stanley Cup." I may like or love you, but a bad claim is still a bad claim.
Just like the world needs to face global warming. Just like the world had to face the planet was a globe and not flat.
