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In reply to the discussion: Dear Liberals: Being Critical of Islam Is Not Racism [View all]oberliner
(58,724 posts)Are you suggesting that there are some beliefs or aspects of Islam that we should not be allowed to speak critically about? If so, I can't agree with that.
I think the ideology known as Islam ought to be fair game for any and all criticisms just as other ideologies are.
People should feel free to say the same things about Islam that they might say about Christianity or Republicanism.
I don't think that just because an ideology is called a religion that makes it somehow exempt from scrutiny or criticism or that even people ought to be more sensitive about the way they criticize it.
If someone said that they were a Republican and that the Republican party platform is very important to them and that those are the principles around which their lives are structured, would you say that we ought not to be able to speak critically about the totality of Republicanism?
I understand that the situation with Islam is more complicated because there are those who have discriminated against people just for being Muslim and mistreated people because of how they looked and the like - but I still assert that such reprehensible behavior is separate from criticizing the ideology itself.