The Associated Press’s recently updated style guide forbids its journalists to use ‘Islamophobia,’ and ‘Homophobia’.
‘Islamophobia’ is term researchers would be wise to avoid as a general rule due it’s pejorative nature. It alludes to the fact that ‘Islamophobia’ is a mental illness which it may be in some cases, Breivik for example. But others have a more nuanced, reasoned critique of Islam (or Islams of various kinds). For others not so well reasoned there concerns about Islam do not equate to a mental illness.
Researching into such a contentious area of politics and communication, makes word choice crucial in the quest for the most accurate definition of phenomena.
It tends to be wise to use what organisations and individuals call themselves, and/or develop as neutral a term as possible after researching their platform, whether nativist, Islamist or otherwise.
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Informed rational freedom loving people have all the reasons in the world to fear islam. The twin fogs of political correctness & ignorance must be dispersed before western society better understands this menace. Even a brief review of islamic theology & history quickly exposes the deadly roots of this evil ideology.
Mohamhead was a 7th century murdering warlord who rose to power on a river of blood surrounded by thugs and gangsters using intimidation, violence, deception and trickery to expand their criminal empire while mercilessly suppressing and killing their opponents and enriching themselves on stolen booty.
The evil koran is a collection of sayings and speeches by this diabolical madman claiming divine guidance from some mythical sky-god which has inspired generations of crazed fanatics to abhorrent behavior resulting in historys worst ever crimes against humanity starting 1400 years ago and still continuing even today.
Islam is just another fascist totalitarian ideology used by power hungry fanatics on yet another quest for worldwide domination and includes all the usual human rights abuses & suppression of freedoms.
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“The evil Koran” is no worse than the “evil Bible” If I remember my perceived child brainwashing correctly slavery was acceptable. Stoning women for adultery was quite OK. Most people are aware that both these book were written by uneducated nomads who thought the earth was flat. If anyone isn’t able to put their religion in that perspective they need psychiatric help.