Showing posts with label islamophobic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label islamophobic. Show all posts

January 27, 2015

Is criticism of Islam islamophobic and racist?

On the racist question, Christopher Hitchens says no, and categorically so:
"You cannot be a racist by criticising the Islamic religion, by definition you cannot. There’s now a stupid term that’s trying to be imported into our culture, "islamophobia", as if to group it with racism in general. Nonsense. I won’t have it. I dislike Islam very much, just as I do all religions, and ive every tight to say that I think it’s an absurd and wicked belief."
Glenn Greenwald gives a slippery view to the contrary, saying that the label of racism for anti-muslim animus is a "rational view":
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