In your alt-left world maybe but not in reality. This is a clash of religion/culture. Our modern world against a medieval warmonger society with money and modern weapons.Note the similarities to Star Trek.
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In your alt-left world maybe but not in reality. This is a clash of religion/culture. Our modern world against a medieval warmonger society with money and modern weapons.Note the similarities to Star Trek.
False equivalence, then slippery slope.
The Imam immediately accepted responsibility after the Quebec attack.
In fact, he even went out of his way to forgive the Neo Nazi.
Something that many catholics appear to have forgotten these days.
By making no sense whatsoever.
Only ethnicity applies
Ethnocentrism vs Racism - What's the difference? | the-difference-between.com
As I already said, ethnicity and culture are not mutually exclusive.
Therefore, cultural racism still applies.
Logic.
It's not your strong suit.
And the more you defend this, the more racist you look.
If you're referring to Trump, I thought he was a borrow-and-spend authoritarian.
Well then, this racist begs to differ. Islam is a religion. Do Muslims suffer discrimination on the basis of religion? Absolutely. More so than other religions? I don't know the statistics, but based on my observations, probably. Is Islam a race. No. Muslims come in every shape and size and colour. Do Muslims all share a common culture? Again no. They speak different languages, eat different foods, read different literature, etc. The Muslim community is far more diverse than you might realise. For example, would you say that a British convert to Islam shares an identical culture to a Chinese convert to Islam? Seriously!
We coud say they share a common religion. We could even say that that religion will lay the foundation of their respective cultures whereby they'd both stop eatin pork for example. But their cultures will still be different. Same with a North American Christian and an Arab Christian for example.
It's both a religion and a race.
Race isn't defined exclusively by biology.
I have a formerly Jewish friend who converted to become Muslim and he's being discriminated against by Islamophobes once they find out about his new faith.
Race isn't defined exclusively by biology.
I have a formerly Jewish friend who converted to become Muslim and he's being discriminated against by Islamophobes once they find out about his new faith.
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Unlike ethnicity, race is purely based on physical appearance and for most purposes is meaningless. Some Muslims are blue-eyed and bond-haired and speak only English for example.
Race was previously defined primarily based on aesthetic differences but that is no longer the case.
Islam is defined by the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad and nothing else. When in China, I had eaten halal food that tasted nothing like Middle-Eastern food. It was halal in not having pork. The Muslims look like the locals. In North WesternChina, they're the majority and mostly white-skinned. But in Eastern China, they look just like the Han. Many are Han. They speak the same language, and their food tastes like regular Chinese food but without the pork. How can you say that they and Middle-Easterners share the same culture? Same religion, yes, but the religion merely serves as the foundation of one's culture. The culture is the house that's built on that foundation, and that will vary between Muslims.
I never said they were exclusive, ethnicity includes culture. Racism doesnt include culture.
Ethnocentrism...
The Swedish Equality Ombudsman says that racism "originally is a word that describes the division of people in a "race system"( like Apartheid) where certain races are biologically subordinated others. Today we talk more about culture racism - the notion that cultures are absolute, unchangeable and define the individual's characteristics."[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_racism
This actually supports my point.
There may be differences in biology or even preference in diet across many in the Islamic world, but what makes them part of one group actually defines a solidified, cultural state or identity. That cultural identity is their 'race', in which discriminating against same is simply racism.
It's really not that hard to understand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_racism
This actually supports my point.
There may be differences in biology or even preference in diet across many in the Islamic world, but what makes them part of one group actually defines a solidified, cultural state or identity. That cultural identity is their 'race', in which discriminating against same is simply racism.
It's really not that hard to understand.
If you read the frist paragraph of that, it states that 'Muslim culture' is a term used mostly in secular academia. Not all Muslims themselves would agree with it. It's like the atheist Jew or the cultural Christian or the atheist Muslim. To believers, it's an oxymoron, to non-beleivers, Jew = Hebrew, Cristian = Westerner and Muslim = Arab.