{"id":1532,"date":"2016-04-13T22:36:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T22:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2016-04-13T22:37:54","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T22:37:54","slug":"1532","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/2016\/04\/13\/1532\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Islamophobes just Racists?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another excerpt from the Anti-Islam F.A.Q.:<\/p>\n

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0.3 \u00a0This is just another form of white xenophobia or racism. \u00a0‘Islam isn’t a race’ is just a dodge – this is in line with prejudice against immigrants, blacks – dark skinned people in general. \u00a0Your views are just racism recast, and we should dismiss them as such.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please take a look at this for starters<\/a>, and then read this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What difference would it make if I was<\/em> a racist? \u00a0It simply means that a racist is right and you are wrong. \u00a0Moreover, let’s say that I am a racist and a bigot and this is all an elaborate con. \u00a0Doesn’t that make you morally obliged to take this seriously, to read through it and offer a comprehensive refutation? \u00a0If you just dismiss this, won’t you be letting other people get conned by me?<\/p>\n

However, please reread that first link\u00a0and then look at this:<\/p>\n

\"Islamophobes:<\/a>
Islamophobes: the world’s most diverse bigots<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To take that from the top, left to right, row by row, these are: Sabatina James<\/a>, Austrian Pakistani convert to Christianity and women’s rights activist; Ayaan Hirsi Ali<\/a>, Somali Islamic apostate and atheist, women’s rights activist; Yaron Brook<\/a>, Israeli-American head of the Ayn Rand Institute; Narendra Mod<\/a>i, Indian Prime Minister; Ashin Wirathu<\/a>, Burmese Buddhist and leader of the 969 movement; Bruce Bawer<\/a>, gay American writer\u00a0living in the Netherlands; Ibn Warraq<\/a>, Islamic apostate scholar; Guillaume Faye<\/a>, French neo-fascist; Robert Spencer<\/a>, American Catholic conservative; Maryam Namazie<\/a>, Iranian communist; Oriana Fallaci<\/a>, Italian journalist and anti-fascist resistance fighter; Pim Fortuyn<\/a>, former communist party member, and life-long social democrat, as well as supporter of gay rights; Brigitte Gabriel<\/a>, Maronite Christian Lebanese; Aung San Suu Kyi<\/a>, Burmese opposition politician; Richard Dawkins<\/a>, British atheist intellectual and evolutionary biologist; Sam Harris<\/a>, American leftist atheist; Walid Shoebat<\/a>, former PLO terrorist and fundamentalist Christian convert; Umar Malinde<\/a>, Ugandan Christian convert; Suzanne Zeller-Hirze<\/a>l, last survivor of the White Rose<\/a>, the anti-Nazi resistance in Germany; Zakaria Bostros<\/a>, Coptic priest; Bill Maher<\/a>, US lefty comedian; V.S. Naipau<\/a>l, Trinidadian writer and winner of the Nobel prize.<\/p>\n

Now as you may have noticed, this is about as a diverse group as you can imagine. \u00a0There is exactly one thing that unites this group, which is that they all have taken a close look at Islam and concluded that it is a menace.<\/p>\n

Take Islam out of the equation and just note down the number of people you’d think were broadly on ‘your team’ – your political\/philosophical worldview. You don’t have to agree with all of them, or even most of them – but the miniscule chances of you not aligning\u00a0with\u00a0any<\/em> of them, should make you ask: how is it that a group of people with exactly nothing else in common tend to converge on the same view of Islam? \u00a0 Doesn’t that suggest that we might have stumbled across something valid?<\/p>\n

But if insist on this argument that loathing of Islam is some sort of irrational bigotry, to be lumped in with racism, well, that’s very convenient. \u00a0A certain fraction does exist\u00a0that use hostility to Islam as a way of being generally xenophobic. \u00a0However, before you get smug, let’s take a look at the other side of the coin – what sort of people tend to like Islam, defend it? \u00a0Well, people like this guy:<\/p>\n

\"Heinrich<\/a>
Heinrich Himmler, under whose guidance the Handschar SS was formed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And this guy:<\/p>\n

\"Gotlob<\/a>
Gotlob Berger<\/a>, mastermind of the Waffen-SS, and responsible for the death-marches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And of course, this guy:<\/p>\n

\"Hitler\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Cheap shot? \u00a0Try the following further details:<\/p>\n