I CAN’T BE RACIST? BECAUSE MUSLIMS AREN’T A RACE.

Every time I openly criticize Islam, Islamic beliefs, Islamic jurisprudence, the Quran, the Hadiths and everything that is Islamic, I am slurred as a Racist and an Islamophobe.

First of, Islam is NOT a race.  Islam has nothing at all to do with genetics, nor is it an innate characteristic.  It is an ideology – a set of beliefs about individual behavior and the rules of society.  Hence, criticizing Islam is not racism.  There is no such thing as "anti-Muslim racism" any more than there is "anti-Christian racism," "anti-Liberal racism,"”anti-PC racism,” or "anti-Capitalist racism." 

So why would anyone claim differently?  People generally choose their beliefs; they do not choose their race.  Therefore Muslims are not a race of people.  In fact, there are Muslims of all races.  Does a person change their race by adopting or leaving Islam?

It is because the battle over Islam is being fought in the West, the only arena in which it can still be critically debated.  It is also here that repugnance toward racism is strong and nearly universal.  From politics to illegal immigration, fear of the race card is one of the strongest influences on public policy.

At the same time, it is nearly impossible to defend Islam on its own merits in the West in free and open debate.  According to its own texts, the religion was founded in terror.  Its political and social code is deeply incompatible with liberal values.

 Muslims societies usually rely on threat of violence to suppress both intellectual critique of Islam and the freedom of other religion to fairly compete, which would be a slow death.  Advocates in the West cling to the race card. If they can paint any criticism of their religion as "racism" then the massive evidence against Islam can be dismissed out of hand without having to contend with it.

Slinging the worst of all slurs to compensate for deficiency of fact and logic is weak enough, but it is ironic given that what is being defended in such cheap fashion is an ideology that is overtly supremacist in nature.  In fact, those Muslims who do want to rely on the race card are not thinking too far ahead.

And then I’m labeled as an Islamophobe.  So, let’s look at what “Islamophobe” really means.

In my dictionary, Islamophobe is a non-Muslim who knows more than they are supposed to know about Islam.

Islamophobia is an allegedly  irrational fear of losing life or liberty to Islamic rule merely because the laws, sacred texts, and traditional practices of Islam demand the submission of culture, politics, religion and all social expression.  It tends to afflict those most familiar with the religion while sparing the more gullible.

Unlike Infidelophobia (Quranically-inspired hatred and fear of non-Muslims - see Sura An-Nisa 4:101), Islamophobia rarely involves dead bodies. 

The word "Islamophobia" literally means a fear of Islam, which is odd since Allah himself "throws terror into the hearts of disbelievers" (Sura Al-Anfal  8:12).  In contemporary use, it means any hint or suspicion that Islam is different from other religions.

 Islamophobes include:

Hindus, Christians, and Jews who don’t want to be forced into a political system that treats them as third-class citizens.  (Islamic teaching)

 

Atheists who want the freedom to live openly and challenge religious orthodoxy in the public sphere.  (Islamic teaching)

 

Women who don’t want to be draped in black bags.  (Islamic teaching)

 

Heterosexual males who prefer not to see women draped in black bags.  (Islamic teaching)

 

Wives who don't want to be beaten (Islamic teaching)

 

Drinkers (this one's  important).  (Islamic teaching)

 

Artists.  (Islamic teaching)

 

Historians who don’t want to see priceless manuscripts and books burned just because they disagree with the Quran.

 

Homosexuals who don’t want to be beaten to death.  (Islamic teaching)

 

Anyone else who believes that consenting adults should not be killed or tortured over sexual practices.  (Islamic teaching)

 

Dog lovers.  (Islamic teaching).

 

Animal Rights activists and anyone else who is opposed to the cruel and unethical treatment of animals.  (Islamic teaching)

 

Mothers who don’t want their daughters killed over a man’s “honor.”  (Islamic teaching)

 

Intellectuals who value freedom of conscience and public dissent.  (Islamic teaching)

 

Anyone believing that the value of a person's life is not determined by their religious beliefs.  (Islamic teaching)

 

Feminists who believe that women should not be made subordinate to men by a religion which openly insists that females are the intellectual and legal inferior of males.  (Islamic teaching)

 

Anyone else who objects to a religion in which a woman’s identity is defined by her relationship to a man.  (Islamic teaching)

 

Secularists who believe in the separation of government and religion.  (Islamic teaching)

 

The  left-handed (Islamic teaching).

 

Liberals who don’t believe that culture and moral values should be established by a state-sponsored religion.  (Get past the Religion Barrier)

 

Liberals who believe in preserving the Western heritage responsible for the civil freedom, political liberty and economic success which has attracted the flood of immigrants from Muslim nations, where such values are conspicuously lacking.  (Islamic teaching)

 

Muslims who would like the freedom to leave Islam.  (Islamic teaching)

So, if Muslims are a race because of Islam, then it means that Islam is a racial ideology. Therefore, what this ideology has to say about its own and other “races” becomes very important.

If Islam is a race, then Christianity and Judaism are races as well, meaning that if the Quran speaks of them as inferior, then it is a racist book.  In truth, the Quran does more than that.  In a stunning burst of religious bigotry, Muslims are ordered to fight Jews and Christians "until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued" (Sura At-Tawbah 9:29).  There is no basis in the text for bringing Jew and Christians under the heel of Islamic rule except by virtue of their religious status.

No other religion filters perception through group identity to the extent that Islam does.  Around the world Christians, Jews and other individuals are routinely brutalized merely because they are a member of a non-Muslim group, not because they have done anything to personally deserve having their lives taken, their children maimed or their property torched.  Meanwhile, other Muslims are generally indifferent to this violence and reserve their true outrage for circumstances involving Muslim victims of non-Muslim acts, however unintentional or relatively slight.

So, if Muslims are a race, Islam would not only be a racist ideology, but arguably the most hateful and destructive in history.

The reality is, there's a problem with Islam. Whether or not Islam is inherently a violent religion is up to the Imams' and their followers' interpretation of Islam (it's not up to the Liberals), but ultimately there are enough people with extremist views of Islam to create dozens of Islamic theocracies and to staff whole armies to make war on infidels. The crux of our position is that so-called moderate Muslims have been silent for too long. Mosques, Muslim foreign national leaders, Imams, etc., need to lead the charge in denouncing and de-funding these extremists and in ending persecution against non-Muslim religious minorities, gays, women, and Jews. Until I see Muslim people in the streets protesting terrorism, ISIS, Hamas, etc., I--we--will continue to criticize Islam for the savagery it endorses.