I am not the topic. Bear that in mind please.
When you ask questions, you become part of the topic, just as I am.
You, as a person, are not topic. What you say here, is. Just as what I say here is. If you are going to derail tbe thread by making it about me and not the topic then that is problematic.
I made you look like a fool and that is what bothers you.
Are you telling me I can't disagree with you when you make stupid statements?
NOBODY gets your point, "are Muslims people?" Again, what the hell is your point? Nazis are people too. Rapists are people too.
What you are lacking is the question was asked of a person who said they are not people. You jumped in like a half assed idiot who didn’t bother to follow the conversation.
You can disagree with me all you like. No problem there. But if you are going to derail the thread by making it about me, that is a different matter. Same would apply if I tried to derail by making it about you.
You are stupid and you are a liar.
No wonder you serve Islam like you do.
I never said Muslims are not people .I pointed out that I prefer to discuss Islam as an ideology and later on when you made your usual childish, bullying demands, I said Muslims are people who follow the supremacist doctrine called Islam.
I must say, that whatever it is that you do every year on 911, it certainly does reinforce your Islamist belligerence.
You said you prefer not to call them a people. Go back and read your post. Then rethink who is a liar.
“I’m prefer to think on terms of Islam as an ideology rather than Muslims as a people.”
You serve hatred and bigotry in every post you make about Muslims. You are coy and dodge and deflect whenever directly confronted with your own words.
You call direct questions on your words “childish bugling demands”. Why? You made the statements. Are simple questions asking you to clarify your position now “bullying”? Goodness, I recall you accusing me of dodging questions in the past.
It is people like you who sent the refugees of the St. Louis back to Europe. It is people you who’s attitudes inspire people like the gunman who murdered 50 people at mosques in New Zealand.
If Muslims aren’t people or a people...what are they? The answers to those questions and the systemic dehumanization of a people in this way is exactly what leads to persecution, discrimination, and at it’s worst, genocide. It starts with ideas, words, campaigns of rhetoric and fear. You know where it ends. Look at the topic title. Is there more anti Muslim since 911?
The answer is simple. Yes. There is. People are afraid. Their way of life is changing, jobs are gone, the globalization of economies and even cultures leave people worried and desperate to protect what they see as their cultural values under attack by masses of impoverished immigrants. But this isn’t new. At the turn of the century, America was inundated with a flood of poor Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. They attacked for their consertive religious traditions (most American Jews were either of Sephardic origin, who came over in the 1600’s, or from Germany, who had come over in the 1840’s) where most of American Jews were reform. They were attacked for being dirty, breeding like rabbits, and bringing “dangerously radical“ ideas of equality and workers rights (socialism and communism). There is a parallel trend going on now, against Muslims. But you don’t want to see it because you are in the midst of fomenting it.
Then it was communism, now it is Jihad. Even though most, then and now, just want to make a life, raise their families and experience opportunities and freedoms they never had in their home countries.
So if Muslims aren’t people or a people what are they?
If you do not believe in religious freedom in this country, what do you propose for our nation’s Muslims? Banning mosques? Outlawing the Quran? A national registry? Microchips or tattoos? Barring them from elected office?
These are all reasonable questions, yet you characterize it as bullying”. Is your position so dicey you are unwilling to explore it?
Feel free to ask me similar questions. I don’t have a problem answering or defending, or, if the argument is persuasive, reconsidering my views.