Is Islamophobia rising in the UK?

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Is Islamophobia rising in the UK?

Interesting article: https://www.opendemocracy.net/what-the-rise-in-islamophobia-tells-us-about-modern-britain/

i am not trying to understand the catholic faith, I am talking about the lived experience of a great many people who have grown up within it who take the trauma with them well into old age.

So you claim you can understand someone else's subjective 'lived experience' ?

I thought you understood it well.

The Catholic faith uses guilt to control. To me this is less heinous than using violence and political oppression to control, but it's still not acceptable and leaves lifelong scars.

Thinking Israel shouldn't exist is mainstream now?

It is on here.
Irl people are a little bit more reticent.

Actually antizionism is a new face of antisemitism. Zionism is simply the belief that Jews should live in their ancestral homeland. Nothing more, nothing less.

27 countries have Islam as their state religion, while 13 have Christianity as their state religion. 53 countries have a Muslim majority, and 120+ have a Christian majority. One Jewish state of which Jews comprise c70-75% of the population and Muslims and Christians live as equal citizens isn’t an issue.

It’s not extreme for the Jewish people to have a homeland, which is all that Zionism is. There are many Muslim-majority countries now (most of these countries were not always Muslim-majority, and some made Christian or Jewish citizens unwelcome to the point that they had to leave).

I’m a non-Jewish Zionist. People who are ‘anti-Zionist’ are antisemitic; they’re the extreme ones.

As to the OP, no I don’t think we have an ‘Islamophobia’ problem in this country; conversely we have a growing awareness of the danger of political Islam, in its many forms.

What about anti Christian feeling in other countries. Is that ok. No of course not.

Yet it always seems to be swept under the rug. Still, those that want to, can help

www.stewardship.org.uk/blogs/help-persecuted-christians

I'd have more concern about white Muslims.

Converts tend to be more fundamentalist than people born into the Religion and any white person converting to Islam in the last 25 years is making a distinct choice.

Anti-zionism is a protected belief that under British law does not equate to antisemitism.

Same as transphobia - clickbait

Across the centuries there have been endless examples of man's inhumanity to man, much of which has been driven, in whole (or at least in part) by religious beliefs. Isn't it about time we stopped doing that to each other?

Seems to me the world would be a far better place without religion in it.

Yep, especially when they spend many hours telling me about it and the harm they believe it has caused them.

they believe

As I said a subjective experience.

If they are spending 'hours telling you about it' maybe you should point them towards counselling/therapy?

How is antizionism a protected belief? Protected by whom? What body?

I have no idea where you're getting your facts but you sound deranged 😂 Of course people can leave Islam, if they do wish

with repercussions:

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a prominent Somali-born ex-Muslim activist, author, and former Dutch politician who has lived under continuous armed security and severe death threats for over two decades due to her outspoken criticism of Islam.

People can leave any high-demand Religion or cult if they wish to.

It's what happens afterwards that is important.

Are they excluded/shunned? If not that, are they subjected to emotional manipulation to return to the Religion/cult?

If not emotional manipulation are they criticised? Mocked? Made to understand that they're just not as 'good' as the people still in it?

That's what happens with all high-demand Religions/cults. The beliefs are so important to the people still in it they literally cannot accept apostates in the same way that they would people adhering to doctrine.

It's impossible to true believers.

Apostasy in the Qu'ran is punishable by death.

Watch the Oxford Union debate ‘this house believes the west is right to be suspicious of Islam’, particularly the audience reaction to an envelope containing the Charlie Hebdo cartoon.

Islam isn’t just a religion, it’s a whole political ideology and in the UK, why would people want to take a step back to such controls on our lives?

This

I sound deranged? You sound rude and like you have been under a rock for the last 30 years.

Or Muslim

🙄 have a guess what my job is 🤔. So tell me, what is your problem with subjective lived experience? You are being a little opaque.