Straaaawmaaaan. I didn't mention ISIS, nor did I say all muslims think alike. However, islamic culture currently includes FGM, throwing gay off rooves, and child marriage. Which of these is it irrational to be against?

That reads as only anything pro-Islam is the 'right' education. Blinkered maybe!

As those children have no say in their marriages often to much older men it is also child rape.

Yes you are, extremely! If that's how you read DR's comment then that shows just how blinkered you are. Your motto should be 'Hate and divide'.

No my motto is to 'question dubious religious practice'. Without such questioning all number of atrocities have been carried out in the name of religion.

Using terminology such as 'hate and divide' against those that question is diversion tactics and a weak attempt to shut down such questioning.

There are dubious practices amongst the vast majority of religions yet you constantly only drone on about those attributed to the Muslim religion. Far more people in the UK have suffered at the hands of the Catholic religion.

How about antisemitism, is that made up?

So you are saying it's irrational to be an atheist? :shrug: But it's not irrational to believe there is a king in the sky who will let you into a virgin debauching party when you die? And We will all be down with that if we are educated?

Maybe, maybe not - but Islam is the religion currently out there, constantly shoved down our throats and the one even given a made-up name in an attempt to shut down criticism. It is the most vocal demanding special treatment such as sharia law, prayer breaks in the workplace, exemption from criticism and jokes, automatic respect from non-Muslims whilst not doing the same for other religions. The dubious practices of the religion often seem to get lost behind all that.

Not to my knowledge.

Could that not be said to be a made up word that is used when a specific group is criticised?

Don't want to appear hypocritical do you?

In the past, sure. It's a bit of a moot point as there aren't any post defending Catholicism, nor any threads about it.

In the past?... :/

It isn't a 'moot' point it is entirely comparable, is it perhaps not considered repressive, oppressive and suppressive enough due to the fact it happens to be a Christian religion?

Well as many Muslims seem to be antisemetic it's a strange word to try to make comparisons with.

Whatever, at least it isn't a word trying to hide behind a 'clinical' definition to give it more clout. It's pretentious nonsence.

All words have a clinical definition, that's why there are dictionaries.

Again you are entirely fixating on Muslims...My point is if there is a word that defines the maligning of one group why then is it so unreasonable to have a word equal in it's definition for another.

It appears hypocritical

Feel free to start a thread. Maybe you could mention how the culture surrounding the religion drives people to take their daughter abroad for FGM or child marriage. Ohwait, wrong religion.

Pick your battles - it's a "made up word" so who cares. The phobia isn't added to the end to make it sound clinical, it's just a word.

I agree, we should stop calling it Islamophobia and start calling it what it is.

Racism.

But you're not a big fan of that one either, are you Brillo? In fact, it seems like you would like to "ban" any "negative sounding" word from being used to describe people who like to spout hatred about Muslims. I wonder why that is?

Or hypo-clinical :hehe:

You could, but that of course would be technically incorrect as race and religion are not one and the same.

If you disapprove of a religion and its practices you must therefore be 'racist' - yeah that makes sense!

Sounds more like a case of adding 2+2 together and coming up with 5.

Are you saying that you have no problem whatsoever with middle-eastern immigrants who are nonreligious?

Generally no I don't. But it would of course depend on other factors such as views and behaviour. If a group of people for instance are known for mistreating women, it would not be desirable or acceptable whether they tried to justify that with religion or not.

How on earth did you come up with that?

Muslims don't frighten me.
I don't fear Muslims.
I am not Muslim.
I respect the Muslim faith the same as I respect any faith.
I also respect atheists.
I don't agree with some religious practices. FGM is not a religious practice though.

No, its not out there any more than Judism or Christianity. Its only 'out there' on here where you continually bring up the subject of this religion so you can demonize it. You constantly try to ram its evils down our throats.

You clearly read up on its evilness all the time because every time you find something you deem a little juicy, you bring it here to 'shove it down our throats'.

It's not scripturally informed, true, but it's part of islamic culture.