Taqqiy does exist, but I agree I shouldn't have brought it up because could be used for having the same implication as 'Der Ewige Jude'. Besides that it didn't really cover what I meant. What I meant was a tendency with muslims and muslim organizations to present themselves as pretty moderate, and once they're more established another inch is demanded and they often turn out to be quite a bit less moderate. Especially from the organizations it's seems a strategy.
Yes, but firstly antisemitism is racial and race is simply not open to criticism because it's never relevant in a way that one can be anti because it's not a choice. Secondly it's not worded like some mental issue with comes with irrationality. I don't know of any attitude, behaviour or stance that might be covered well by islamophobia.
Hate crime? Racism? A true muslimophobe wouldn't do that, he would be petrified or run away shivering. Also if you mean any fear or hate towards people, name it after the people and not the religion. There's also propagandistic value in the equation of the person and the religion, like it's something you're born with and has nothing to do with choice. Islam likes to present itself as some kind of race to get the same protection, it suggests some inevitability and unchangeability which is one of islam's teachings, apostasy is not allowed. But I don't agree, I'm not accepting it's propaganda or it's logic as relevant to it's place in society I'm allowed to discuss. Someone mentioned the power of words here, and I agree because words are often used for power and if you want to pinpoint something you shouldn't let yourself be tricked into using words that are designed to mask the sour point.
Terrible things have been done in the imperial history and it's easy to condemn them by today's standards, but to be honest I'm not sure the sum of the impact was negative allthough the native Americans (North and South) have been hit extremely hard. What we see that the West is judged by the values and norms it gave to the world, and only the West. Somehow the muslims managed to manouver themselves in a historical victim role just like the Africans and many Asians, but they weren't any less imperial or bloody than the Europeans. On the contrary, they just ended up less successfull despite their greater indifference to human suffering because if your society is ruled by islam you're going to get outsmarted by free people. But now it's all together against the evil whites that did such terrible things, the acknowledgement of atrocities is a soft spot to be exploited. The Arabs have taken far more slaves from Africa and treated them much worse. The Arabs, Turks and Berbers enslaved millions of Europeans too while I don't know of any systemic enslavement of muslims by Europeans. Maybe some Berber or Ottoman pirates ended up on Spanish galleys but that's probably about it.
I'm much more condemning of the post WWII, post imperial West which often did not meet it's own standards that were raised throughout it's history, even Arab and Persian muslims became victim for a change.
Within my country we've had religious peace since 1579, not always nice or entirely fair but peace, it took only three decades of a muslim community to have the first religious bloodshed. I tend to not see it as religious wars like religions fighting eachother, but muslims fighting religious wars, and other religions and seculars often together fighting ethnic wars or just simply wars. I don't believe there's any other religion left that tries to advance itself through war.
But contrary to Turks of the same colour, Bulgarians are classified as whites and race has become the agent of blame and victimhood and history has to step aside, or worse, be adapted to that narrative. Not that my country doesn't have a colonial past, but any colonial responsability for the state Africa is in is an extremely far stretch that ignores historic facts. Doesn't matter, people who's parents came as refugees from Africa without any colonial tie but where still welcome after passing 13 safe countries are now claiming reparations, just because they are black and the indigionous people tend to be white. The Berber and Turkish side with them without any reflection on their own imperialistic and slavetrading past. It's actually not how bad Europeans are, but how good they are, that has to be exploited.
