AIBU?
lets try again with the anti islamophobia, shall we!
karbonfootprint · 03/07/2015 22:38
Well, I did start a thread about this recently, but it is full of discussion about terrorists, and events in other countries......
Just talking about this country, the UK, and Muslim and non Muslim British people, lets just look after each other, and stand up for each other against intolerance and racism, and be friends!
WhyCantIuseTheNameIWant · 03/07/2015 22:43
Sounds fair to me.
I try to be like that.
Treat people as you would like to be treated...
Unless they start taking advantage.
Bu that can be anybody, any religion, colour, age, size...
I have a couple of Muslim friends.
It's extremists of any religion who,are more likely to cause problems.
Yanbu.
ghostyslovesheep · 03/07/2015 22:50
YANBU but it will go the same way sadly - full of people demanding Muslims stand up (ignoring when they do and are) and banging on about Islam being anti women (it isn't - the Koran is not anti women - some Muslims men and states are - a bit like in other non Muslim countries)
This is always worth a view though - if people can be bothered to watch it
Gemauve · 03/07/2015 22:53
Just talking about this country, the UK, and Muslim and non Muslim British people, lets just look after each other, and stand up for each other against intolerance and racism, and be friends!
Abu Usamah At Thahabi, an imam at the Green Lane mosque in Sparkbrook, Birmingham:
“we hate the people of the kufr. We hate the kuffar”.
“do you practice homosexuality with men? Take that homosexual man and throw him off the mountain”.
“she should start hijab from the age of seven, by the age of ten it becomes an obligation on us to force her to wear hijab and if she doesn’t wear hijab, we hit her”.
“Allah has created the women, even if she gets a PhD, deficient. Her intellect is incomplete, deficient”.
Yeah, tolerant stuff.
DoughDoe · 03/07/2015 23:03
YABVVU.
Here are the police's figures on hate crimes:
1: race -36,000 per year
2: sexual orientation - 4,300 per year
3: disability - 1,800 per year
4: religion (all religions) - 1,600 per year
And if you look at the types of offence, the homophobic crimes disproportionately involve violence.
And not only that, if you ignore the much bigger issue of race, you ignore all the homosexuals and bisexuals being attacked, you ignore the disabled being tortured and abused, even within the category of religious hate crimes, the fact is that Jews are SIX TIMES more likely to be the subject of a religious hate crime than Muslims.
So why do we always hear about Islamophobia?
For me the subtext to this 'let's talk about Islamophobia' is 'people are Islamophobic, and this is why X', where X is some evil deed committed in the name of Islam (terrorist attacks, etc.).
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