There's a social pandemic poisoning Europe: hatred of Muslims

[arewethereyet]

Gee, another "woe are the Muslims" thread. I would never have expected that.

Still not quite sure how this isn't considered spamming.

[Deesse23]

Gee, another "woe are the Muslims" thread.  I would never have expected that.

Still not quite sure how this isn't considered spamming.

After the killing of several people and their brutal beheadings, i consider such threads of him as tasteless, whiny, disrespectful and symptomatic for his lack of empathy for others than members of his own *tribe*.

[brewer]

Today I'm finding it hard to have sympathy for muslins or their religion.

I doubt the Islamophobia will be scary enough for them to change their ways.

[zebo-the-fat]

Heads must be cut off in order to protect the almighty creator, who is apparently a delicate, vulnerable, little cream puff.

Any god who can be hurt by a picture is clearly not worth bothering with

[The Grand Nudger]

The article points out that much of "islamaphobia" is just a veneer for racism. These islamaphobes™ get conflated with anyone who takes issue with islam, especially by muslims.

[Duty]

Ahem - Islam is not a race, it is a religion. By that token "Muslim" is also not a race. Therefore "anti-Muslim racism" makes zero sense.

[Mister Agenda]

Yeah, the fact that Muslims are widely perceived as mostly brown or black people has nothing to do with any prejudice against them. s/

[Brian37]

Yeah, the fact that Muslims are widely perceived as mostly brown or black people has nothing to do with any prejudice against them. s/

This is why I really don't like anyone in the world equating religion to a race, or ethnicity or culture. Sammy Davis Jr was a black Jew. Richard Gere calls himself a Buddhist and he is bone white. Not even the word "atheist" denotes a skin tone or nationality. Reginald Finley, many may know as "The Infidel Guy" is a black atheist. I've also run into online former Hindus now atheists who were born and raised in India and still live there. I have a friend who was born and still lives in Pakistan who is of olive skin tone who is an atheist.

Nobody can help what skin tone they were born with, but it is always possible for anyone in the world to question the religion they are surrounded by and decide they no longer believe it.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The article points out that much of "islamaphobia" is just a veneer for racism.  These islamaphobes™ get conflated with anyone who takes issue with islam, especially by muslims.

Much like the annoying habit some people have of equating opposing the policies of the government of Israel with being anti-Semitic.

Boru

[HappySkeptic]

The article points out that much of "islamaphobia" is just a veneer for racism.  These islamaphobes™ get conflated with anyone who takes issue with islam, especially by muslims.

This is an issue whenever radicals from a group do something bad.  The rest of the group says "they aren't TRUE Scottsmen", and cry about potential bigotry against them as a result of the incident.

It is a valid concern, but it is also a political ploy to shut down criticism of their group.

I believe that Islam is the most backward major religion on the planet.  I believe it is dangerous to freedom and democracy.  Every other major religion is spiritual (though secular power structures have been built upon them).  Only Islam merges religion and secular power.

And yet I know some very nice Muslim immigrants.  They are not fundamentalists.  However, I have always held that magic-book-based religions are best judged by the books themselves.  Liberals who throw away the bad parts of their books are a break-away faith.  If a faith claims to follow a holy book, then the only 'real' members of that religion are the ones that actually follow that book (FSM help them if the book is contradictory).  Everyone else is part of a schismatic group.

So, are the head-choppers a schismatic radical group that are disobeying their book, or are they following the Quran and Hadiths?  They claim the latter.