Criticizing Islam is "racist"

Submitted by Ianus (Poland), Apr 18, 2009 at 08:08

Morpheus wrote :

> With racists like these on both sides,<

Semantics, dear friend , deals with meanings of words. We are talking about Moslems , a religion. Now tell me since when have "Molsems" become a race ? If "religion" is "race" as you imply, then e.g. Ethiopians must be white Caucasians, aren't they ?

> who by the way are the loudest beasts out there, either they will kill everyone in their hatred of each other, or something decisive has to be done about them. Racist rhetoric and racist aggression may well be the end of "human civilization" or the little that it has achieved.<

"Race" may be a cheap, catchy , all-explaining word in some parts of America. But it has no use for what you try to construe here. And your lofty self-righteous moralizing could be better spent in memory of 9/11 victims than against me - "the loudest beast out there".

Anyway, given the above perversion of semantics by you, I abstain from more comments. They wouldn't be very pleasant as you may well imagine.

> Sad, so sad, and so infuriating!<

Yes, indeed. After all semantics is not difficult to master, is it ?

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