In addition to “Islamophobia,” the earnest employment of the term
blasphemy, and its advancement by Islam’s apologists as a tenable
concept, is a clear enemy of open and secular society. Free expression,
which constitutes the bedrock of the West’s process of deliberating
controversial questions of value, cannot be balanced or reconciled with
the idea of sacred and unchallengeable beliefs, since it contradicts the
first principle of free speech: that even the most profane dissent must
be protected. Most importantly, the creeping influence of terms like
blasphemy and Islamophobia is undignifying to both Muslims and
non-Muslims for two reasons...
The strategic construction of “Islamophobia,” which is rooted in the
word Islam and not Muslim, serves more than a mere lexical purpose. It
is designed foremost to associate voluntary religious belief with
involuntary skin color, appealing to widespread and legitimate revulsion
to racial prejudice, and further to equate bigotry against Muslims with
criticism of Islam, blurring any distinction between these two very
different actions...
Beyond its intrusion upon intellectual inquiry, blind tolerance of
anti-Western attitudes in the form of fundamentalist Islam has direct
repercussions for the health and security of the West...
Now some comments worth consideration:
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Islamic theology teaches hatred of nom-Muslims. It also encourages devout Muslims to commit violence in the name of Islam.
This Islamic inspired violence can be seen daily in the news by anyone willing to admit reality.
Islamophobia is nothing more than a prejudicial word used by Muslim
and Muslim apologists to stop discussion of the facts about Islam.
--muslims are people;islam is the ideology.this article makes reference to
islam the ideology;this ideology is hostile to non muslims.muslims
themselves can differ from the ideology itself.
--Islamophobia, a term coined by Al-smack after 911. Why they were scared
via the anger from western Muslims horrified at what the 911 attackers
did, now that term is used by apologists of Islam globally against those
of us who are sick to death of the demands of Wahhabists and Salafists.
It's not a phobia when Muslims in Canada demand Sharia Law, when they
turn cafeterias into Wahhabi Mosques, when females are murdered in
Canada via honour killings, the rise and normalization of gendercide by
Muslims, last but not least their current demands to criminalize
blasphemy of Islam. It's not a phobia, it's self defense of western
culture to fight against the fanatics who fought for none of our
freedoms and liberties but fight to destroy them.
--I agree completely. These terms are used against people usually for one
reason, that being to shut down discourse. It is a PC way to bully and
shame people who may hold different views. They are used as a weapon
and more people need to recognize them as such and refuse to be
intimidated by them.
--he same people who criticize (mainly) Westerners for embodying the traits of Islamophobia are often moderate Muslims.
These same people are silent, or even absent, when their more violent
and orthodox co-religionists think it's OK to storm a U.S. embassy and
murder people, to riot in the street, etc.
To those people who stay silent over violence and express outrage
over perceived attacks against Muhammad, who isn't Allah, it should be
noted, but a prophet, I say thus:
You are a hypocrite. And you are a coward.
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