“Islamophobia:” Can It Be Considered A Type of Racism?
By - James Lawrence
The word of the day recently seems to be this “Islamophobia” term that is
being thrown around talk shows and biased news networks. It is a useful
term. With it, you can drown a person’s voice out when speaking out against
Islam, drown them with the social pressures of being labelled racist and
ignorant. It acts as a big stick you can hit people with the second they
question the ever-loudening oppressive voice of Islam. However, I am
pleased to see people are no longer intimidated by the ridiculous accusation
of racism as Islamophobia is on the rise; instead of observing and pondering
its flourishing number, many media outlets prefer to name ignorance and
racism, which fuels the anti-Islam fire. Somehow it is so much easier and
fluffier to label mass numbers of Europeans, Americans and educated
scholars racist than it is to ask why it is only Islam that is getting it in the
neck and not other religions.
I’m Not The First To Ask This And I Won’t Be The Last But...What
Race Is Islam?
It is not a race. It is a belief, a nefarious iron-handed belie, and a white
Muslim is held no higher or lower than an Arabic Muslim. It is not the skin
colour we are worried about. Skin colour does not blow up all-girl schools or
drop deadly chemicals on people. Violent fascist ideologies do. Do you
honestly think the highly intelligent late Hitchens (who is dearly missed) and
Dawkins are the “racists” that the term would have you believe? Of course
they are not! Neither am I and probably neither are you because you are
reading this right now and we all know most racists do not possess the
capacity to read; and yet Islamophobia is still relentlessly tagged as racism
despite many of us trying to explain this very simple reasoning. It seems
some people would rather close their ears and scream “racist” in an
annoyingly high-pitched tone the second you criticise Islam’s actions.
Perhaps the guilt we feel for several hundred years of persecution,
performed by the white We stern world, clouds our perspective and compels
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