Are you an Islamophobe?

[Dystopia]

@Nestor

Islam is seen as a monolithic bloc, static and unresponsive to change.

I know this isn't true, but the general picture supports this idea. There's Muslims with different views but what I see the most is conservative Muslims wanting to preserve what the Quran commands. Religions are usually extremely conservative, and that ends up resulting in unresponsive stagnation. I wouldn't say they're monolithic though. It's not that there aren't liberal Muslims, but how many Muslims are liberal and secularists? It's hard to not agree with this when all we see about Islam is either (1) Terrorism (2) Muslim human rights group billing laws to ban any criticism of Islam (3) Muslims protesting against free speech and other western rights (4)Surveys revealing extremely conservative and hostile political/ideological opinions coming from Muslims (much more than Christians); for example a study I once linked here in AF said 45% of Muslim immigrants don't trust Jews

Islam is seen as separate and "other." It does not have values in common with other cultures, is not affected by them and does not influence them.

It's not that it doesn't have values in common, but it has a lot differing from the west and political ideologies like liberalism or democracy.