Oh well. The regions where islamophobia is so prevalent have the lowest islamic share of people. In general around here more than 99 per cent of all murders are commited by good old christians.
It's dumb and rooted in racism like everything else around here - nobody holds all of Christianity as responsible when the Christian white man shoots up the synagogue or abortion clinic or whatever - it's just kind of assumed that he's an radical outlier. So why don't brown people get the same assumption?
I think it's half just a buzzword virtue signalers use to dismiss some very valid concerns people have about Islamic religious fanaticism. I mostly agree that Islamic fundamentalism is incompatible with Western culture. Which isn't to say people from Muslim backgrounds can't assimilate or are capable be of being decent people.
On the other hand, there is a lot of uninformed Islamic resentment that borders on xenophobia. This idea that if we let in Syrian refugees the US will become a Sharia Law abiding caliphate is stupid and navitist.
I think it's okay to slam a religion when a religion deserves it. Call a spade a spade. I think you're right (as you kind of said in your response to Daniel's question) that here in the West people are afraid to speak out against Islam because it's not PC. I suppose Islamophobia, like any sort of antagonism, can go too far. I would limit it to maybe critiquing the religion (except for known terrorists, of course, they should be locked up or, if that's not an option, blown up) and also I think it's fair if the people of a given country decide to keep Muslims from immigrating so that they don't end up changing the values of the country, raping their women, etc.
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