That would be right Yassir, it would be foolish to try to respond to the "islamophobes", after all you wouldn't have a leg to stand on, would you.

Have you all noticed that those brave Islamic soldiers in Lebanon are using one of the more disgusting weapons in the Islamic arsenals of war, that is rape. Gaddafi's forces have been directed to render their enemy's women worthless.

Before you start throwing that racist accusation, it was in Bosnia that I first heard of this action by the brave Islamics, so it really is a result of the religious teaching, not ethnicity that this barbarism is practiced.

Zack, I think I have more right to feel disgust at your, or any other apologist for Islam, inclusion in my society.

haha. Yes, it was the Muslim in Bosnia that was the aggressor? Wow. We'll just ignore genocide, and facts, when it gets in the way of unsubstaited anti muslim dribble; so the victims of qaddafi arent muslim but he is; then again what do you expect from someone who can't tell the difference between Lebanon and Libya. You give ignorance a new dimension.

Yes that was a slip, but you must admit that all the middle east looks the same. With a bunch of idiots running around shooting their guns in the air, how would you tell the countries apart. Must be bl00dy dangerous being a bird in that area.

Still despite my ignorance, I've never raped any one, that appears to be just slightly more ignorant to me.

On that matter of Bosnia, I would have supplied arms to the muslims, so they could defend themselves, they got a raw deal there. You should also remember who it was who sorted that out.

It was the US, & the Poms who forced NATO to act. If it had been left to the useless UN there would not have been a live Muslim left there by now.

Hasbeen. I regret you are not a bird from the middle east.

On more important topic. Yassir you raise a good question. That is actully why I signed up for this forum was to ask that question. Why is it under spirituality? Lol.

Yassir wrote:

>>I thought the readers of online opinion might actually have an opinion, now I just think Australia is more racist than I first imagined.>>

Would you please explain to me what way expressing disdain and loathing for a belief system or ideology is “racist”?

Why, for example, is it racist to be an “Islamophobe” but not racist to be a “Christianophobe” as many Muslims and posters on OLO are.

Are you suggesting that it is somehow mandatory to love Islam?

That having a poor opinion of Islam shows some sort of character deficiency?

That when it comes to Islam free speech has to be curtailed?

What exactly are you saying Yassir?

allahu akbar!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgY6N6Qe5EA

(Warning: Extreme violence)

I think the writer of the article misses the point, and instead attempts to deflect critics with a 'medicalisation' of a non-medical phenomenon. (Of course, those who use "Islamophobia" may be suggesting that those who dislike Islam are mentally unwell, but they haven't met us yet either, have they, so they might be prejudiced.)
The point is that many who have looked into Islam, or have had direct experience of it, have not enjoyed that experience, to put it mildly. They may have even become genuinely afraid of Islam through their experience, but this does not mean that they have an irrational fear. They may not be afraid of all Muslims, but they fear Islam as a force in the world. (Personally I think it is a misnomer to call Islam a religion: it is a political system that claims theological justification, as the Kings and Queens of Europe used to.)
To have formed an opinion, from investigation and/ or personal experience, is the only valid way of forming an opinion. Those who can defend an opinion with evidence are not acting irrationally; on the contrary.
As the writer who goes by the name of ibn Waraq says, most Muslims are better than their religion would have them be, most of the time, on most issues. And I add, Islam is a pre-fuedal form of Fascism, and everyone is correct to be very afraid of its increasing influence