#ExMuslimBecause
If a random right-wing commentator stated that, say, Muslim men were more likely to rape women than caucasian men based upon some scant supplied evidence that falls apart under the slightest analysis, you would be quite right to denounce the fellow as an agitator with a confirmation bias.
So it's surely only fair this cuts both ways? Groups like TM have a broader responsibility here too of course. Part of the Islamist narrative is to provoke a 'them and us' mentality and just as hate crimes against Muslims in stupidly misplaced revenge for Paris feed into this, so do exaggerating offences that actually have taken place. See also labelling any criticism of Islam, however reasoned and accurate, as Islamophobic and by extension a hate crime.
But to answer your curious question, of course it's a societal issue that we should be concerned with, just as we should be concerned with the much less reported rise in anti-semitic hate crimes.
ad hoc wrote:
As a matter of interest do you believe that anti-Muslim hate/rhetoric (and worse) is not an issue that we should be concerned about?
As a matter of interest do you believe that anti-Muslim hate/rhetoric (and worse) is not an issue that we should be concerned about?
So it's surely only fair this cuts both ways? Groups like TM have a broader responsibility here too of course. Part of the Islamist narrative is to provoke a 'them and us' mentality and just as hate crimes against Muslims in stupidly misplaced revenge for Paris feed into this, so do exaggerating offences that actually have taken place. See also labelling any criticism of Islam, however reasoned and accurate, as Islamophobic and by extension a hate crime.
But to answer your curious question, of course it's a societal issue that we should be concerned with, just as we should be concerned with the much less reported rise in anti-semitic hate crimes.
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