Since Christchurch there's been this thing: Any criticism of Islam is bad. If you criticised Islam, you have blood on your hands. See Wajahat Ali in the New York Times, for example. [Link]. It’s all white people who have blood on their hands. All white folks. Because they criticised Islam or didn’t stop other white people from criticising it.
What's being conflated is White Supremacy (Bad) with criticism of the ideology of Islam (Necessary. As are critiques of all ideas).
This article at Harry’s Place sums it all up very well.
It's a big danger to our own safety if any and all criticism of the wackier parts of Islam are decreed beyond the pale.
George Clooney has done the right thing: he's called for a boycott of Brunei-owned hotels because Brunei has just passed islamic Sharia laws that say gays should be stoned to death. Stoned to death! For being gay. And yet it's this critique that people are trying to muzzle. In the wake of Christchurch.
Again, this article says it well. People can fear, be worried about, Islam in our communities for very sound, non-racist, reasons.
What's being conflated is White Supremacy (Bad) with criticism of the ideology of Islam (Necessary. As are critiques of all ideas).
This article at Harry’s Place sums it all up very well.
It's a big danger to our own safety if any and all criticism of the wackier parts of Islam are decreed beyond the pale.
George Clooney has done the right thing: he's called for a boycott of Brunei-owned hotels because Brunei has just passed islamic Sharia laws that say gays should be stoned to death. Stoned to death! For being gay. And yet it's this critique that people are trying to muzzle. In the wake of Christchurch.
Again, this article says it well. People can fear, be worried about, Islam in our communities for very sound, non-racist, reasons.
