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Originally Posted by Toy Santa
Oh that's OK then. Its that fluffy, friendly, more focussed brand of bigotry.
I disagree anyway; if the man in the picture was white and cleanshaven, even if he had a massive sign above his head saying "I am a Muslim", people would not be having the same reaction to this "hilarious" photograph. Therefore, let's call it what it is: not islamophobia, but negative, destructive stereotyping based on casual racism.
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I would laugh at anyone that looked at the camera like they're about to be sentenced to meet Tony Blair and George W Bush, but hey that's just me I suppose.
And no it's never okay to be prejudiced, but having a joke about someone looking like a stereotype isn't really prejudiced, otherwise Seth MacFarlane would be prejudiced then and I don't think that his got a prejudiced bone in his body as he takes the piss out of prejudiced people in his shows.
My main stance on this is that if his not gonna let the security see his luggage then he is a potential danger to the people on board so therefore can't go on, and of course it's not right, but it's only Human to feel paranoia about someone that's not showing his luggage to the security when his from a Religion that's got the biggest Terrorist Organisations around at the minute.
However I also don't agree with Muslims being singled out negatively for following Islam, imo every Religion needs to stop being so radical so that we can get a more peaceful world.
And of course I hope that the NE do these checkups on everybody and don't just single out Muslims.