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SnowWhiteOctober 30, 2024(Edited October 30, 2024)

No i think we are going way too easy on Islam. Being Islamophobic does not make you racist. Dismissing women's suffering just because they come from different background than you is what makes you racist. Saying their culture is "too complicated for you to understand" is a way to opt out of a difficult subject instead of doing the bare minimum and bothering to learn about these women and their oppression enough for it to no longer be "too complicated" to say that sexual slavery is wrong.

r/exmuslim is great place to hear stories from people who often have no other place to voice their true thoughts. As many of them still live in Islamic countries or are immigrants and scared for their life every day. Scared of their family, not scared of us or islamophobia. If you ask any of them, we aren't being islamophobic enough.

MaryDyerOctober 30, 2024

I think it’s hilarious when people try to claim that Islamophobia is driven by racism. Like…the Muslims literally initiated the African slave trade, and were not shy at all when it came to their “justifications” for enslaving Africans.

pennygadgetOctober 30, 2024

Like…the Muslims literally initiated the African slave trade, and were not shy at all when it came to their “justifications” for enslaving Africans.

And, to this day, the Arabic slang term for a Black/African person is "slave".

[Deleted]October 30, 2024

You seem to be suggesting that racists can not themselves be victims of racism - is that right?