Islamophobia

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SMILLENNIALSMILLEN: Jun 26, 2009

Cat Mattress posted:

That's the whole point behind the term Islamophobia. It achieves two objectives:
1. Any criticism of Islam, for any reason, is racist; therefore you cannot criticize Islam. Feel free to criticize anything you want except Islam which is a sacred cow.
2. Muslims are reduced to their religion and are denied any other identity. It doesn't matter if they're actually atheist or whatever, they're Muslims and therefore they submit to Islam.

Things would be better if racism was called racism; but it has to be called Islamophobia now so as to make Islam the real victim. Not people, not humans, but Islam, an abstraction, is the victim here.

This sounds like something a conspiracy theorist would say.

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SMILLENNIALSMILLEN: Jun 26, 2009

Kajeesus posted:

I feel like Daesh became the biggest boogeyman specifically around the time James Foley was captured and executed. Assad and Boko Haram tend to be domestic in their atrocities, which just doesn't get reported nearly as much. You've probably heard of most cases where ISIS executed Christian or Coptic prisoners, but you tend to have to go looking to find out the extent of their treatment of all the "wrong" kinds of Muslim.

Definitely. There were a lot more calls for action once that happened.

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SMILLENNIALSMILLEN: Jun 26, 2009

Nonsense posted:

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Cross-post

Jesus cheist.

Mulva posted:

My brother brought up a really good point last night when we were discussing this vis-Ã -vis Trumps poll bump from his Monday statements. He thinks a lot of this is Islamophobia is driven by the fact that Muslims are easily set apart from society by their dress and actions, and this makes it impossible for many Americans to assume that everyone they meet is just another version of them.

This reminds me of that old joke:

Q: How do you know if somebody is a vegetarian?

A: They'll tell you! (Except for all the ones that don't, giving you a false perception of them consisting solely of a very vocal minority)

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN fucked around with this message at 00:03 on Dec 11, 2015

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SMILLENNIALSMILLEN: Jun 26, 2009

Mandy Thompson posted:

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/ohio-seventh-grader-threatened-to-use-dads-gun-to-shoot-muslim-boy-he-called-son-of-isis/

Of the boys father is letting him mess around with guns, he is probably the sort of defective who airs racist bullshit in front of his kids.

He should go to an alternative school for a while. We can't condone this kind of behavior and other students need to be protected from this violent bully.

And if it was the parents that taught him that, then they can deal with the consequences too. They should be investigated to make sure they aren't abusing him or teaching him hate.

quote:

An Ohio seventh-grader is accused of threatening to shoot a Muslim classmate he called a terrorist and a “towel head.”

The older boy called the Muslim student “the son of ISIS” and accused him of responsibility for destroying the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, 2001 — which happened before either boy was born.

drat.

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SMILLENNIALSMILLEN: Jun 26, 2009

-Troika- posted:

Speaking of bombs

Original source bmw.blog

Did this even happen? It says it happened in melbourne but I havent heard anything about it.

e: clashdaily :catstare:

quote:

3 BLACK THUGETTES Find Poor White Man And Beat Him To DEATH

Did you hear about this one from the mainstream media? Of course you didn’t because it wasn’t about a white cop shooting a black man.

Lmao what is wrong with you, troika?

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN fucked around with this message at 09:21 on Dec 27, 2015

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