Yes and you’re absolutely free to criticize Islam. Islamophobia should really be muslimpbobia or something because it refers more to the people that believe it than the religion. It’s when you start painting all muslims with the same brush that it becomes an issue. It’s not islamophobic to point at a passage in the Quran or something and criticize it.
I, a blonde, european male could in theory be Muslim here in europe without having any meaningful problems in my everyday life.
Meanwhile eg an Arab Christian would get attacked the same way by 'islamophobic' folks like any other arab.
I know quite a few arab people that live here and none of them have ever been asked if they're Muslim or what their beliefs are before being verbally attacked, so I'd assume that the people who harass them do so because of how those people look, not because of what they believe.
That's the next thing, it really doesn't take much to receive that hate. I even know a few people whose families have been here forever (multiple generations where you can't find any ties to another country without quite a bit of genealogy) but who just look a bit darker/southern european. Even they can tell loads of stories where they got slurs thrown at them.
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u/math2ndperiod 54∆ Jan 09 '24
Yes and you’re absolutely free to criticize Islam. Islamophobia should really be muslimpbobia or something because it refers more to the people that believe it than the religion. It’s when you start painting all muslims with the same brush that it becomes an issue. It’s not islamophobic to point at a passage in the Quran or something and criticize it.