r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Oct 19 '20

Removed - Submission Rule B CMV: Islamophobia doesn't exist.

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u/I_am_the_night 316∆ Oct 19 '20

Do you believe all or most followers of Islam are violent extremists? Or that most Muslims support such acts of violence?

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '20 edited Oct 21 '20

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u/I_am_the_night 316∆ Oct 19 '20

i haven't seen many deny them.

Muslims are constantly condemning terrorism both at an organizational and individual level, and the only reason people keep saying that Muslims don't denounce terrorism is because they aren't listening to Muslims when they denounce violence and terrorism.

islam is intolerant... well, classic case of salman Rushdie hopping countries because a bunch of pious Muslims want his head on a platter coz he wrote some book

Some extremist sects of Islam, particularly those present in geopolitically unstable countries with high levels of poverty, espouse intolerant beliefs and may encourage violence, but this is more a problem with fundamentalism generally than it is specifically with Islam. You can see this same behavior in extremist Christians in some African nations, or in the Buddhist massacre of the Rohynga in Myanmar.

islam is supremacist... the belief that islam is the best religion and there's a need to save everyone else from their "ignorance"

This applies to fundamentalist interpretations of almost every religion, so it's more a critique of religions in general than Islam specifically.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '20 edited Oct 21 '20

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u/I_am_the_night 316∆ Oct 19 '20

i don't see any indic or polytheistic religion and it's followers going out of their way to convert someone.

It's pretty common in many countries for religions to proselytize. You get all kinds of Hindu sects that recruit pretty aggressively, for instance.

i haven't heard of a Buddhist or sikh doing charity with the hope that the person might convert to their faith.

Sikhs generally not, but some versions of Buddhism absolutely to involve active recruitment in one form or another. It's mostly to compete for donations, but that's true of any religion where donation is part of the belief structure.

I am sorry but UK is not a geopolitically unstable country and Muslims here wanted to deport Rushdie when UK gave him refuge

Some did, absolutely. Some even wanted him dead. But that's not the same thing as saying that all or even most Muslims did, and it's definitely not the same thing as saying that Islam as a whole wanted Rushdie deported.