re: #232 Obdicut

When I first arrived here, there was a cohort of people who argued, over and over, that Islam was demonstrably different from other religions, deeply flawed in some structural way, and thus deserving of special condemnation and, in fact, irreversibly extremist.

Those were Islamophobes.

I happen to think that it is structurally flawed and designed to maintain a 14th century culture in the most intimate details of everyday life.

That we can find plenty of exceptions doesn’t change that, but whatever I might argue in that regard has probably already been categorized as Islamaphobia even before it is said.

See what I mean?