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Originally Posted by wireties
Hey - you posted them in a response to a request for evidence Irving was racially and/or culturally biased. Check the mirror.
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Madison already posted the relevant portion. I posted two fact-checking sites in response to your comment regarding the presence of a Sharia Court in Irving, even without stripping it down to the barest portion of the quote as Madison did, the context should be obvious enough.
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Originally Posted by wireties
I am fully prepared and you will not fair well. So now I am Islamaphobic? Is this your modus operandi - every person who disagrees with you is -ist or -phobic. Wow.
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From now on, I suggest we take it to PMs. This is obvious not constructive. However, since you have accused this of being my "modus operandi" (and I would think you would have seen that elsewhere if that was my modus operandi), I feel the need to make this response public.
Your comment espoused a
targeted negative stereotype only related to this thread's subject by the narrowest of tangents. That stereotype was, by your own admission, based out of ignorance ("I don't know much about Sharia law"). That comment was Islamaphobic.
You and I seem to have a fundamental disconnect regarding Islamaphobia and racial prejudices. Stating an action is Islamaphobic is not an attack on someone's character. Stating that our culture is prejudiced against Muslims in a fashion that led to the detainment and suspension of Ahmed is not an attack on the individuals who detained and suspended Ahmed. What it's doing is identifying an action that is based on ignorance or misunderstandings. It's attempting to correct a negative behavior. It doesn't mean that you're a bad person, simply that a mistake has been committed. Given the cultural prejudices in play here, it's important that incidents like these not be allowed to perpetuate, but rather be brought up. It's why it's important to raise Ahmed up as a symbol. If you wish to discuss women's rights in Islam, we can do so via PM rather than drag this thread further off course.