lebanesepoppyseed replied to your post: No you are wrong, one can be racist toward a religion.
You cannot be racist towards a religion, but given how Islam has been racialized and discriminated and rallied against based on said racialization, you can’t ignore that context when criticizing the religion. #IslamophobiaYa’llYeah, but restricting the term Muslim or Islam to just one race is, in my views, a bit problematic. You have Arabs, people of African descent, Asians, White people (like Brother Ali) who are Muslims so to link the term to one race is just dildos IMO.
Evidence that the word choice section of my brain is shutting down after liberal consumption of nicotine, alcohol, and sleep deprivation.
You misunderstand. I know that Muslims are not just one race and agree that it is oversimplifying and problematic to view them as such, but regardless of that they have all been racialized as the trope of the dark Middle Eastern, Arabic-speaking extremist so as to fit white supremacy’s needs regardless. Kind of how like not all poor people are black and vice versa, yet when a lot of people are saying bigoted shit about “hoodrats” and “welfare queens” and whatnot, you know they’re referring to black folk specifically and the language is racialized. There are Muslims of every race, many more so than actual Middle Eastern Muslims, but that isn’t how the religion is viewed. That needs to be taken into account.
