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The Other Phobia (Islamophobia)
The American Thinker ^ | February 13, 2007 | Keith Roderick

Posted on 02/13/2007 8:19:00 AM PST by EveningStar

...The [CAIR Policy Bulletin] noted that Muslims in the West have been viewed as outsiders and Islam as the "other." The result, according to CAIR, is that the West has put up barriers, "stereotypical assumptions and misguided pronouncements regarding beliefs, attitudes and customs," making integration of Muslims into Western civic and political systems more difficult. The report also claims that anti-Muslim rhetoric permeates American society...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cair; islam; islamophobia; muslim
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1 posted on 02/13/2007 8:19:03 AM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Phobia means fear....

.........the right words would be hate and disgust...but never ever fear.....


2 posted on 02/13/2007 8:20:10 AM PST by Vaquero ("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Alouette; SJackson; Howlin; onyx; Clemenza; Petronski; GummyIII; SevenofNine; veronica; Xenalyte; ..

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3 posted on 02/13/2007 8:21:07 AM PST by EveningStar (Hillary Clinton is Hugo Chavez in a pantsuit - P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: EveningStar

Maybe the good folks at CAIR can let us know how the integration of western thought is happening in Islamic culture- no stereotypes etc there I'm sure- *rolls eyes*


4 posted on 02/13/2007 8:23:02 AM PST by radioactivereb ("I'm tryin' to think but nothin' happens!"-Curly Howard)
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To: EveningStar

There is nothing irrational about my distrust, fear, and downright disgust of the moronic death-cult called islam.


5 posted on 02/13/2007 8:24:13 AM PST by Spruce
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To: EveningStar

Awww shucks. That's too bad. They complain because of something they have instituted? All they are trying to do is put everyone else on the defensive. Get pro-active and condem what the radicals are doing.


6 posted on 02/13/2007 8:24:29 AM PST by RC2
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To: Vaquero

Phobia, as I understand it, means an irrational fear....my fear is far from irrational.


7 posted on 02/13/2007 8:24:38 AM PST by Hildy (RUDY IN 2008)
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To: EveningStar

So hear we go - The victimization of Muslims begins. Western society (Are you listening whitey?) needs to understand muslim anger and have compassion for their plight. Hate the sin but love the sinner. You know what? F&*k that. Until Muslims can decide which side they want to be on (destruction and mayhem versus law and democracy) they will get no free passes from me. Earn my respect cause it will never be given because some MSM talking head tells me I am a bad person for distrusting Muslims.


8 posted on 02/13/2007 8:25:05 AM PST by steel_resolve (They hate us because they do not rule us)
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To: EveningStar

Freedom lovers disdain anti-truth, anti-freedom, anti-individual, anti-life collectives. CAIR (Collective Against Individual Rights).


9 posted on 02/13/2007 8:26:23 AM PST by PGalt
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To: EveningStar

Muslims have shown no interest in integrating. So why are they surprised when they're viewed as outsiders?


10 posted on 02/13/2007 8:26:27 AM PST by Malone LaVeigh
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To: EveningStar

There's a business opportunity here. Someone should print "Islamophobe" on a t-shirt.


11 posted on 02/13/2007 8:27:53 AM PST by popdonnelly (Conservatives must have their own long march through the institutions.)
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To: EveningStar
" . . . radical agenda of Islamists who do not hide the fact that they want to transform the United States into an Islamic country governed by shari'a.  These Islamists offer a caveat, that is, they want this transformation to be done without terrorism or violence, using only the political process to Islamicize American society."

So it's okay to stone women, deprive them of their rights of property and force them to wear burkhas not to mention eliminate Christianity (and Christians) as long as we voted for it? These people need to be . . . converted. I will pray that they will embrace my religion so they won't force me to embrace theirs.
12 posted on 02/13/2007 8:30:04 AM PST by adgirl
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To: EveningStar

When you've got imams preaching murder, maiming, and mayhem, then Islam has less in common with religion than it does with organized crime. Other religions teach their believers to be tolerant. Islam teaches that members of other religions are sub-human.


13 posted on 02/13/2007 8:30:37 AM PST by popdonnelly (Conservatives must have their own long march through the institutions.)
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To: EveningStar

The result, according to CAIR, is that the West has put up barriers, "stereotypical assumptions and misguided pronouncements regarding beliefs, attitudes and customs," making integration of Muslims into Western civic and political systems more difficult.

Not in America!


14 posted on 02/13/2007 8:31:18 AM PST by Valin (History takes time. It is not an instant thing.)
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To: Vaquero

It's just like the term Japanophobia, which is used to describe an irrational fear of japanese.

Likely effects maybe less the .000001% of the population. The real disease in this world appears to be albophobia but it's rather an unknown term.

Google pages for albophobia = 214
Google pages for Japanophobia = 38,400
Google pages for islamophobia = 1,260,000

Something seems out of place or is an epidemic.


15 posted on 02/13/2007 8:33:32 AM PST by CJ Wolf
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To: popdonnelly

With a guy with a white sheet over is head, and a burning cross in the background.


16 posted on 02/13/2007 8:33:43 AM PST by Valin (History takes time. It is not an instant thing.)
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To: Hildy

Exactly. And irrationality is the absence of reason. It is very reasonable to be fearful of people who loathe our very existence.


17 posted on 02/13/2007 8:35:32 AM PST by conservativebabe (Dear Lord, Please help Paula keep her head off the table this season. Amen)
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18 posted on 02/13/2007 8:35:55 AM PST by Alouette (Learned Mother of Zion)
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To: EveningStar
You're not paranoid if they really are out to get you. Islam has shown not just abundant, but overwhelming evidence that yes, they really are out to "get" us. Not only does Islam have an incontrovertible agenda to dominate the globe (including domination of every single person who does or does not adhere to the Islamic world view), this agenda permeates their philosophy and world view. Honestly, it's entirely irrational NOT to be highly resistant to Islam.
19 posted on 02/13/2007 8:36:04 AM PST by Luke Skyfreeper
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To: EveningStar

It is not a phobia, their religion dictates that they cannot tolerate non-muslims. Pretty cut and dry.


20 posted on 02/13/2007 8:37:26 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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