religion phobic

[randomusername03]

is it acceptable to be religion phobic?

Not religious personally, i lump all moderate religions into a live and let live bucket. but the fundamentalist believers, be it westboro or hamas, i do find myself having a visceral and active dislike/distain for. and its mostly fundementalist islam that im aware due to the modern atrocities they have committed. is it bad to say im fundementalist islamaphobic for example?

FGM isn't religious. Circumcision is though.

And yet you keep saying

• you aren’t making generalisations
• you aren’t going on about Islam

It sounds like you’ve made yourself an expert on the subject without actually doing proper reading and research.

She knows how the religion makes her feel. I would think that's good enough for the poster.we are still allowed to have these opinions, so long as they stay within the law.

And I don't think bigotry or zealotry is confined to religion.

Yes. you get fruitloop atheists too. Less so agnostics I have to admit.

But the OP is not disagreeing with you. She does not need to learn about the religion to be enlightened by it as she is not criticising it. She’s just talking about the extremist views!

I think it's not ok I say you're islamaphobic, no matter how you dress it up.

Who gets to decide what's 'Islamaphobic' - you? I don't see anything, on this thread, that aligns with discrimination. She is referring to extremism, which you already know. If you're happy with that practice, don't expect the rest of us to be.

As usual, the progressives are doing the guilt tripping.

The op says it in her original post. "Is it bad to say I'm a fundamentalist Islamaphobic"!

I don't think that's ok.

Yes, fundamentalist, meaning extreme Islam.

Exactly!!

Tbh I don't think there's any adjective that make Islamaphobic an acceptable way to describe yourself. It isn't a term people should be proud to be associated with.

im getting to the point where perhaps I view islamaphobic the same way i see transophobic being used, as a tool to shut down discussion or questioning of things thats are blatantly not right. and in the same way that i have no respect for people who wish to enforce gender identity on me and am transphobic for doing so, i have no respect for people who wish to enforce fundementalist islam on me and am islamaphobic for doing so.

The two are very very different. The vast majority of Muslims are not extremists. So to outright label yourself as Islamophobic, as opposed to anti-extremism is very worrying indeed.

Tell us more about all these terrible Muslims you are in close proximity to.

@randomusername03

"and in the same way that i have no respect for people who wish to enforce gender identity on me"

What does 'forcing gender identity' on you mean?

"i have no respect for people who wish to enforce fundementalist islam on me"

Like literally who has ever done that? I live within walking distance of 4 mosques. The only thing that's problematic about this is getting a parking space at the Lidl next to the mosque before Friday prayers.

But…the people you’re talking about there are extremists. It is important to retain that distinction.

I live in a very diverse area, the most diverse in Wales apparently, and have done for a long time. If there is extremism, it is well hidden and not welcomed by any of the general population of the area. My Muslim neighbours have no more to do with extremism than I do.