In my opinion it is absolutely insulting to every person who has experienced racism on biological grounds (due to skin colour/physical appearance) to call criticism of Islam "racism".
Criticism of Islam is criticism of a culture - behaviours, lifestyles, beliefs. It has nothing to do with biology. Now, it would be racism to see a brown Middle Eastern looking person, assume they are Muslim based on their appearance, and completely unprovoked attack them. That's racism. Criticising Islam for honour killings of "disobedient" women and homosexuals is not racism.
It is not even "oppression" of any kind. To call it "oppression" would imply there has been some unfair treatment. There's nothing unfair about being told you can't force oppressive practices of your religion onto other people.
Criticism of Islam is criticism of a culture - behaviours, lifestyles, beliefs. It has nothing to do with biology. Now, it would be racism to see a brown Middle Eastern looking person, assume they are Muslim based on their appearance, and completely unprovoked attack them. That's racism. Criticising Islam for honour killings of "disobedient" women and homosexuals is not racism.
It is not even "oppression" of any kind. To call it "oppression" would imply there has been some unfair treatment. There's nothing unfair about being told you can't force oppressive practices of your religion onto other people.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"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
