09 November 2011

Confessions of an Islamophobe

These days, lots of people improperly use the word Islamophobia to describe people who are critical, skeptical or fearful of the Muslim faith.

If that’s your definition, then I am an Islamophobe, but I don’t think your definition is accurate.

I think you are just trying to shut me up. I’m afraid of Islam for a number of reasons: First, I am afraid because of its teachings regarding non-Muslims, Christians and Jews especially. A number of sources that comprise the Muslim tradition about such things call for Jews to be subjugated and oppressed. [The Iconoclast] Read more