Criticism of Islam is a protected belief

That would be my university professor father, who I am going to confidently predict is infinitely more educated than you.

This poster likes to try to wind people up on the subject of race and ethnicity

Islam has been on these shores longer than Christianity?

Who on earth told you that massive lie? It is so untrue there aren't any words for that level of untruthfulness. Off the scale. Insane.

Eh? Have you heard what happening in Sudan as we speak?? You seem to be missing huge chunks of information.

Or to the Yazidis?

• More than 100 churches, Christian buildings, and even private homes belonging to Christians have been forcibly occupied during the country’s ongoing conflict.
• There has been a spike in the abduction and killing of Christian men by radical Islamic groups.
• Church leaders are targeted by false charges, including terrorism and apostasy, despite the apostasy law being abolished in 2020.
• Converts from Islam face violence, imprisonment, forced marriage, rejection, sexual violence, disinheritance, and losing custody of their children. Many are forced to flee their homes, or feel that staying is unsustainable.
• Christians are also experiencing exceptional hardship in the hunger crisis because local communities discriminate against them and won’t give them support.

www.opendoorsuk.org/persecution/world-watch-list/sudan/

Of course, thank you for correcting me. I try to uplift marginalised voices wherever I can help it, but I am a white women and unfortunately, can be guilty of falling woefully short myself.

I wholeheartedly apologise if my laxity has caused offence to anybody reading. I will do better.

I know. Tell Swiftasthewind.

Anyone can demonstrate bias.

Well, a couple of recent posters on here have led sheltered lives, for sure.

And can "POC" individuals not demonstrate bias? I have news for you...

@Morningsleepin, here's a quick summary on the Moorish occupations of Spain, for your better information:
https://www.google.com/search?q=moorish+caliphates+treatment+of+jews+christians

What I know is that several oppressed groups (including wome experience discriminatory in hiring practices once their identity as a member of said group is suspected.

Love and tolerance! He couldn't go home because they would kill him!

No, research into unconscious bias says exactly that.

There are different bits of research, you see.

12 Reasons to Be Skeptical of Common Claims About Implicit Bias | Psychology Today

Why would you even be in a conversation at work about your beliefs about any religion? Why would you need to employ skills of "tolerance" to work with someone of faith?

When it comes to workplace conversations, I can understand "I'm fasting today because it is a holy day where we fast for this reason". I can understand "watch out for kids feeling unwell today. Some of them are fasting and it is particularly hot today". I cannot understand "I think Religion X is problematic".

Muslim is synonymous with outsider or non Brit. That is not my opinion, Islam has been on these shores longer than Christianity in fact, but it is how your everyday working class yahoo sees it. I do understand that Islam is a faith that brings people of all colours and sexualities together as a united people of love and tolerance in pious devotion to God, but again, we aren’t talking about us educated folk here.

Woah woah woah, that will be a committee of BIPOC individuals please. Reeducation classes for you.

I should add - the above is just a new form of 'original sin' - an inherited sin. Only, the sin is shown by the colour of your skin, and it is not a 'sin' that is shared by all human beings.

With regards to specific issues like colonialism, racism and xenophobia, Islamophobia, white supremacy, capitalist patriarchy and cultural appropriation, yes white people should absolutely be showing deference to the opinions and lived experiences of marginalised folks.

As for your rather ludicrous example of two minority groups having conflicting views about a particular issue, well in that case taking a modular intersectional approach from a committee of POC individuals unaffiliated with either party would be the optimal solution.

Now, are you quite sure that ‘always’ is really the right word in that sentence?

Research into unconscious bias says otherwise

Does Swift think that no one with pale skin is Muslim?

The biggest critic of Islam (and they were very biased against it) I know had to flee Iran because they were an apostate and couldn't return due to serious threats to their life if they did go back. They were genuinely frightened, and it was not an unreasonable fear.

Are you paid to make up stories? Muslims have always protected Jews and Christians as people of the book. The key to the church of the Nativity in Bethlehem has been held by two Muslim families for over a thousand years to avoid different Christian sects fighting over it

Holy shit do people actually believe this sort of toxic nonsense. I can’t work out if it’s a wind up or real.

Clip-clop

Hard to understand sometimes the intent of some posts.

Or why anyone wants to answer.

Another thread on a detour.