Transcript Islam and Islamophobia

Islam and Islamophobia
Definition
• 1. Unreasonable fear, hatred or hostility directed
against Muslims
• 2. Attacks on Muslims qua Muslims
• 3. Attacks on Islam that appear to be
tendentious and go beyond
• normal inter-religious polemic
• 4. Stereotypical depictions
• 5. Distortions of beliefs, practices, or history to
show “wickedness”
• of the religion or its adherents
• (further info at www.fairuk.org)
What is not Islamophobic?
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Inter-religious polemic
Reasonable fear or hatred against
specific Muslims
Disagreement with Islam-could be
secular
types of Islamophobia
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“dhimmitude”
Terrorism & Violence as somehow
uniquely or especially Muslim issues
Misogyny (obsession with Muslim
women and “liberating” them)
Insulting or harmful attacks on Islam
beyond normal polemic
Example 1: Ethnic fear
• http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2663642
Example 2: Politically motivated
anti-Islam
Oriented towards Israel
http://www.dfme.org/archives/000370.html
Oriented towards India
http://www.swordoftruth.com/swordoftruth/ar
chives/byauthor/vinodkumar/tcfhmu.html
Example 3: Extreme religious
polemic
-Insulting depictions of Muhammad
http://www.warriorsfortruth.com/news-jerryfalwell-mohammed.html
-Moon god
http://www.bible.ca/islam/islam-moongod.htm