RE: If we can't criticize Islam in the West, where can it be criticized?
May 2, 2015 at 7:17 am
(This post was last modified: May 2, 2015 at 7:18 am by TheMessiah.)
(May 2, 2015 at 7:14 am)abaris Wrote:(May 2, 2015 at 6:39 am)TheMessiah Wrote: It's why ex-Muslims like Ayaan Hirsi Ali criticize Islam in the West. I'm getting sick and tired of people saying that ''Islamophobia'' phrase whenever someone criticizes Islam. If criticizing Islam should not be allowed because minorities follow it (and thus, they have some special right) - then Islam cannot be criticized anywhere in the world.
That would be because all too many don't make that distinction between Islam and muslim. Ask me if Islam is a shitty religion and my answer would be a resounding yes. But it's no better or worse than the other two. The only difference being that Western society and legislation prevents radical Christianity and judaism to act on their vile impulses. But especially in Europe there are quite a lot of parties changing some political dime on inciting general suspicion against anyone even appearing to be muslim. And we have the news networks and papers to go along with that. Whenever a precious Westerner is killed in one of the many conflict zones of the Middle East, it's splashed all over the front pages. The thousands of muslims being killed by their radical brethren don't even make it to page five.
So yes, radical Islam has to be critizised, but not using the UKIP method to name only one out of many.
I agree - which is what Charlie Hebdo did, there's a difference between bigotry towards Muslims as people and Islam as a belief system. They didn't demonize an entire group; just the founders of that belief system. No different to when Jesus gets mocked.
Mocking Islam, even as a belief system, is very hard to do in the West without getting labelled as an ''Islamophobe''.
Islam is evil.
