Is Islamophobia Justified?

[No_God]

I hate Islam.

I'm not going to play the politically correct game. I fucking hate that religion and I don't care if that is offensive. Allah can suck a fat chode.

[Mystic]

I hate Islam.

I'm not going to play the politically correct game. I fucking hate that religion and I don't care if that is offensive. Allah can suck a fat chode.

What do you hate about it?

[FatAndFaithless]

Good one.

[Mister Agenda]

Islamophobia is irrational by definition. If you have a legitimate fear due to your circumstances, say if you're a Western journalist in central Iraq, it wouldn't be Islamophobic to be afraid of ISIS militants. It would be Islamophobic to be afraid of sharia law being imposed on the USA.

[Mystic]

It would be Islamophobic to be afraid of sharia law being imposed on the USA.

Islam might spread enough that it becomes majority in US. Muslims also tend to have more kids then Christians and Atheists in the west...so I don't know. Not anytime soon, but sometime down the future, this may happen.

[abaris]

Islam might spread enough that it becomes majority in US. Muslims also tend to have more kids then Christians and Atheists in the west...so I don't know. Not anytime soon, but sometime down the future, this may happen.

Sorry, but that's just ridiculous. Even more so from a European perspective, since we aren't that much into religion anyway. Why should we suddenly embrace Islam? As far as I know, the muslim population in the US is 0,6 percent. It's a very small minority easily beaten by Latinos who tend to have more kids too. In Europe it's somewhere about 5 percent.

Being afraid of Islam is mainly due to fearmongering by rightwing groups who want to make a political dime by demonizing muslims. It's just scapegoating taken to a new level.

And it's also the media of course. Back in 2011 when breivik committed his atrocities, I happened to watch the German newschannel Phoenix. Within minutes after the bomb exploding, they were rambling about Islamistic terror and had an expert on Islamic extremism on. Of course it was a rightwing attack, but it goes to show the kind of bigotry we're dealing with. People dying because of a bomb, has to be an Islamist. Does it matter I didn't believe them right from the start, since it didn't fit the pattern? Most of the people did and that was the problem.

[Chas]

^ this isn't much different from Christianity.

I don't know too much about Christianity...but I think with Christianity, their book teaches awful things, but they follow better things. But with Muslims, their book teaches better things then they follow.

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Another example of what Quran teachies and what they follow. Quran teaches only to kill who kills innocent people or who make mischief in the land (war). But Muslims believe in killing for gay sex and for adultery.

I agree you do not know much about Christianity as your statement is false.

Both groups revere books that have mixed messages of horror and hope; both groups follow them inconsistently; both groups have fundamentalists who should be feared.

[professor]

The term was created to deflect justified criticism, another lie given life to by the media.
Just as the term "terrorist" is now off limits to be connected with "Islamic" or "Muslim" because of decrees by the Impostor.

[abaris]

The term was created to deflect justified criticism, another lie given life to by the media.
Just as the term "terrorist" is now off limits to be connected with "Islamic" or "Muslim" because of decrees by the Impostor.

Yes, yes, prof. Have another cup of tea.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I hate Islam.

I'm not going to play the politically correct game. I fucking hate that religion and I don't care if that is offensive. Allah can suck a fat chode.

Hey, that's pretty thoughtful. Do you have a book out?