Originally Posted by BBXX (Post 11666865)

I think this article being put out on the anniversary is in poor taste, honestly.

This is complex issue - we should be able to critique Islam and call out its extremism, particularly as we are a country which (mostly) has such polarising values to those Islam teaches, but there is a distinct difference between hating the religion and hating those who follow it.

I think though where this arises is that Muslims - and to put it frankly people who look like they could be Muslim - have been subject to racial attacks despite being decent people. I know from friends that when incidents have happened involving someone who is Muslim, they've experienced racial hatred off the back of it - these are people who are Sikh, but because they're Indian racist people just lump them into a group. You saw it here just last summer with the anti-immigration protests - random people attacked for their skin colour because people assumed they were immigrants.

So while I sympathise with those who are victim to such attacks purely because they share a religion with someone who has committed a terrorist attack, I feel like putting out such an article on the anniversary is insensitive to the actual victims of the event, which are those who lost their lives and the families of those people.

I also think framing people who call out the atrocities caused by a religion as Islamophobic completely ridiculous. There is nothing wrong with hating a religion.