Originally posted by RJHinds
Muslim is not a race either, numbnuts. 😏

you seem to be making the same mistake dasa did sweetie-pie, come on we both know you are better than that.

Originally posted by stellspalfie
you seem to be making the same mistake dasa did sweetie-pie, come on we both know you are better than that.

Well, what race are you talking about then?

Originally posted by RJHinds
Well, what race are you talking about then?

dasa is a classic racist, in the same mold of a neo nazi. he knows nothing about islam or being a muslim and he doenst care to learn. he just wants to direct his hate onto different cultures, he wants to de-humanize them, demonize them, to justify his feelings. if it was really anything to do about islam then he would be able to give genuine reasons, but he doesnt, he has to make things up. he is a silly little angry man with pent up anger, he directs it at cultures that are different and uses religion to convince himself that his pathetic opinions have a higher calling, so he can convince himself he's not the bad-guy. when the middle east is no longer the hot topic, he'll find something else to hate, eastern european immigrants, jews, aborigines, chinese.

either all that or because his mums dating a muslim.


maybe as a good christian you should be voicing your dismay at the hatred coming out of dasa mouth, rather than pedantically nitpicking over the definition of what constitutes as racism. good-day to you sir.

Originally posted by stellspalfie
dasa is a classic racist, in the same mold of a neo nazi. he knows nothing about islam or being a muslim and he doenst care to learn. he just wants to direct his hate onto different cultures, he wants to de-humanize them, demonize them, to justify his feelings. if it was really anything to do about islam then he would be able to give genuine reasons, bu ...[text shortened]... edantically nitpicking over the definition of what constitutes as racism. good-day to you sir.

We have different opinions of what a Christian should do. 😏

Originally posted by Dasa
Islam is not a race.

Think again honestly please before you comment.

Racism, ... does not depend on the actual existence of races. In the last fifty years the two communities in Europe which have been subjugated to some of of the most intense forms of racist genocidal violence were the German Jews and the Bosnian Muslims. Clearly, in both cases being Jewish or being a Muslim was not about endorsing a set of beliefs or engaging in set of practices. When the Nazis and Serbian ultra-nationalists called, it was not just the practice but the population that they targeted. Refusing to observe the Sabbath or refusing to pray towards Mecca, would not have been sufficient to save you. Races were never exclusively biologically determined but rather socially and politically produced. Bodies were marked at the same time as religion and culture, history and territories; these markings were used to group socially fabricated distinctions between Europeaness and non-Europeaness. A woman who dons the hijab becomes subject to all the effects of mundane racism: from the dirty looks, to random threats of violence, regardless of her phenotype. If it is possible for some people to detect anti-Semitism lurking beneath anti-Zionism, why is it so difficult to imagine that that attacks on movements for Muslim autonomy could also been manifestations of racism, especially since so many of these attacks rely upon metaphors and assertions long associated with it?

http://www.darkmatter101.org/site/2008/03/26/racism-and-islamophobia/

While the fate of the Bosnian Muslims was terrible and disgraceful, someone like Dasa might also wish to contemplate the violence in India between Hindu and Muslim following partition and the violence today of Hindu nationalist extremists in India. This has been exported to Britain through migration, so that extremist Hindus in Britain are seen to be supporting the British National Party and the English Defence League, reflecting a shared desire to target muslims for hate crimes.

Today Islam is the fastest growing religion in the history of the world.

Britain's UK 2001 census confirms that, with more than 1.6 million UK Muslims (2.7% of the population), Islam is now this country's second largest faith after Christianity.

British Muslims are a diverse and a vibrant community and they form an essential part of Britain’s multi-ethnic, multi-cultural society. Despite their contributions, however, British Muslims suffer significantly from various forms of alienation, discrimination, harassment and violence rooted in misinformed and stereotyped representations of Islam and its adherents - the irrational phenomenon we have come to as Islamophobia.

Islamophobia has now become a recognised form of racism. Furthermore, as with the inaccuracy of such terms as ‘anti-Semitism’, to describe the anti-Jewish hostility that developed in the late nineteenth century, ‘Islamophobia’ bears many similar hallmarks.

This intolerance and stereotypical views of Islam manifest themselves in a number of ways from verbal/written abuse, discrimination at schools and workplaces, psychological harassment/pressure and outright violent attacks on mosques and individuals.

The report on Islamophobia by the Runnymede Trust in 1997 is an illustration of the growing magnitude of the problem. The problem was again highlighted in January 2000 by the Interim Report of the Research Project on Religious Discrimination, commissioned by the Home Office and based at the University of Derby, and by the Parekh Report on The Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain in October 2000.

There is no shortage of studies on the existence of Islamophobia and recommendations on how to address this problem. However, bar a few exceptions, these recommendations are yet to be implemented by the Government. As a consequence, this has resulted in social unease and disturbances as we have seen in some Northern cities and towns, and increase in incitement to racial and religious hatred.

In the wake of September 11, in the UK alone, within a space of two weeks, there were more than 600 cases of Islamophobic harassment, violence and criminal damage.

Today Muslims and other minority multi-ethnic religious communities in the UK still remain unprotected against the offence of incitement to religious hatred.

http://www.fairuk.org/introduction.htm