Agree with every single thing Wilts has said.
Disagree with every single thing that anybody who has used the terms "Muslim bashing thread", "Islamophobia" or "racism" has said.
Will ISIS cause WW3? Unlikely. But they are a big problem, largely to other Muslims.
In this country, we also have a problem...although not quite so extreme.
The problem is fuelled by white, privileged, leftie liberals desperate to display their multicultural ideals and to call other people "racists". They don't give a flying fart about the welfare of other human beings, they just trot out infantile and meaningless soundbites calling everyone who happens to disagree "Islamophobes". Presumably because it makes them sound "tolerant". Unfortunately, they are not clued up enough to understand precisely what they are "tolerating" - and anyone who dares to tell them is a "racist".
People - it is NOT a hate crime to criticise an ideology. Can you figure out why, or shall I explain it for the fifty millionth time?
An ideoloogy, aka an idea, aka a religion, is not a person. It has no feelings to be hurt, no race, no creed, no sexuality. It is merely AN IDEA.
Criticising the idea, however and whenever, says nothing whatsoever about any human being unless THEY THEMSELVES decide to make it about them.
I can say that the IDEA that the moon landings didn't happen is foolish without indulging in a hate crime against those who hold that view. I can say that the idea that homeopathy can cure a child of diabetes is foolish and even irresponsible without being accused of a hate crime against people who do believe that.
By the same token, I should be able to criticise a set of doctrines that relegate women to second class citizenship and demand the deaths of apostates, infidels and gays WITHOUT being accused of a hate crime.
It is a source of supreme disgust to me that, on a website filled with people who pride themselves on being feminists and thinkers, this appalling attitude is displayed time and time again.
It is SO ignorant and SO stupid that I lose instant respect for anyone that displays it.
Islam is not a person so it has no race. That most of it's adherents have a different skin tone is IRRELEVANT. The doctrines would be exactly the same if most Muslims were white, and they would be just as abhorrant.
To turn a conversation that the world needs to having into a race issue by shrieking "Islamophobia" is disgusting, cowardly thing to do. Not to mention stunningly ignorant.
Are people like me "Muslim-bashers"? I don't know...it depends on the Muslim. There are an awful lot of them around the world, in case you hadn't noticed, all of which have their own brains, their own ideas, their own beliefs. Unlike you, I prefer to see them as individuals and base my opinions about them on how they conduct their lives. Like I do with anyone else.
Anyone who lumps all Muslims into a single homogenous group, based on nothing other than one single word - Islam - is guilty of the most obscene act of hate, in my opinion. And refusing to criticise the religion itself, because of race, is an act of racism. The racism of lower expectations...."But it's their culture for women to walk around in tents".