Islamophobia awareness month in the UK

islam is a homophobic, misognynist, paedophilic and barbaric religion. how is being against islam a "phobia" when a phobia, i.e. "agoraphobia" or "clostrophobia", is an irrational fear? if I'm fearful of people who might be hostile to gay people or women, am I irrational? that's what such a term implies, and it's ridiculous. what's next, communistophobia? nazi-ophobia? paedophilophobia?

The triggering 2.0 about to begin.
Brace yourselves people!!

if muslims are defined by their adherence to islam (an immoral religion), then "islamophobia" is still an inappropriate word because why is it an "irrational" fear?

I'm not sure that's how the word works when conjoined to for a physiological condition, for example, acrophobia is a fear of heights. It is perfectly rational to be afraid of heights IMO.

Arachnophobia is a legitimate fear for most as we aren't knowledgeable to know which spiders are poisonous and which aren't, so having a 'phobia' of them all seems prudent.

How do you rationalise a fear of balloons or a fear of clowns? None of them have the ability to hurt or injure and there is no evolutionary reason to be scared of such things. That is if you believe in evolution of course.

interpretations of what, exactly? the very explicit statements from the prophet mohammad? i.e. how women can never practice authority over a man, and only get half of a brother's inheritance money if she's his sister? the fact that the penalty for homosexuality is death? the fact that you can take the women of your enemies in war as wives (virtual sex slaves)? the fact that you're allowed to marry whatever age child you want? the fact that a woman is to be punished for being raped if she didn't have two male witnesses or didn't scream loud enough to bring enough witnesses onto the scene? I mean, you're pretty optimistic here, aren't you? to suppose that such mandates are "subject to interpretation"...

I'm not sure that's how the word works when conjoined to for a physiological condition, for example, acrophobia is a fear of heights. It is perfectly rational to be afraid of heights IMO.

Arachnophobia is a legitimate fear for most as we aren't knowledgeable to know which spiders are poisonous and which aren't, so having a 'phobia' of them all seems prudent.

So in the spirit of synchronicity as a gay is it ok to co-join my islamophobia and my acrophobia to deal with my fear of being thrown off a high building by homophobic muslims?

Well yeah, it could be argued that those statements were made with the time period in mind.

ohh right, so divine truth is culturally relative...makes a lot of sense, doesn't it
muslims typically don't justify it that way though - in fact, the middle east is essentially a dark age society. iron age at best. people still get flogged, publicly beheaded, jailed for religious crimes, etc.



except muslims come from a culture where they actually follow the religion. hence why places like pakistan have children being threatened with death from public courts for supposedly burning pages of the qur'an...and pakistan isn't even the worst place. saudi arabia and afghanistan are *far* worse than pakistan.
christians haven't followed christianity in hundreds of years, really. in europe, they went through an enlightenmnet where they essentially secularised christianity in light with the more noble morals of that time and this current age too. the fundamentalism of christianity then was shed. nothing similar happened to islam.

I think it should be followed by an 'Islam Awareness Month'. Thirty days of news stories about stonings, hangings, honour killings and Islamism in the Middle East, and reminders of all the police cover-ups of crimes against women, children and homosexuals in Europe.

We can also have a contest where we send LGBT and atheist progressives to Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and elsewhere in the Islamic world. Whoever lasts the whole month without being executed wins.

Kids at school won't miss out on the fun, either. They'll get to experience a month of life under Sharia, as well as field trips to real life beheadings (gender segregated, of course).

I think it should be followed by an 'Islam Awareness Month'. Thirty days of news stories about stonings, hangings, honour killings and Islamism in the Middle East, and reminders of all the police cover-ups of crimes against women, children and homosexuals in Europe.

We can also have a contest where we send LGBT and atheist progressives to Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and elsewhere in the Islamic world. Whoever lasts the whole month without being executed wins.

Kids at school won't miss out on the fun, either. They'll get to experience a month of life under Sharia, as well as field trips to real life beheadings (gender segregated, of course).