Islam - What's your view on it?

[Dennisch]

racism

Islam isn't a race.

 

[TexRex]

Here, have a link with opposing views about the terrorist.

https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/ae9g2nW_460svvp9.webm

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So apparently this is making the rounds.

If they say they do it for Islam, believe them. If they say they're anti-Islam, they're lying.

Who is Maral Salmassi anyway? A "musician." Apparently this is the anti-Islam version of latching onto everything Kid Rock says because the bitch supports Trump.

 

[MatskiMonk]

FWIW, these kinds of discussion are often framed in the context of immigration - letting the Muslims in - Clinton has already brought it up. Immigration isn't based on religion, it's based on nationality, and as far as pretty much anywhere is concerned racial discrimination is "any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin".

If you've got a problem with Islam, indeed it's not racist, but a lot of the downstream conversation about it is. As soon as your solution to the problem is to stop immigration, it becomes racist.

 

[sw3g005]

Islam isn't a race.

There's plenty of credible evidence suggesting anti-Islam motives from the attacker, yet you assume the attacker to be an Islamist anyway because he's an arab. Sounds like textbook racism to me.

Also, "Islam is not a race" is the oldest, most tired excuse in the anti-Islam playbook. Everyone knows it technically isn't, but as @MatskiMonk so neatly pointed out, so much of the discussion surrounding it is, and pending on who you ask, sometimes it is a race - I've even heard anti-Islam people describe others as "looking Muslim" in a pejorative way. So... Nice try I guess? You ain't fooling me though lol.

 

[TexRex]

There's plenty of credible evidence suggesting anti-Islam motives from the attacker, yet you assume the attacker to be an Islamist anyway because he's an arab. Sounds like textbook racism to me.

That one's not gonna think any evidence that doesn't support their preferred narrative is credible.

 

[Clinton Ducks]

yet you assume the attacker to be an Islamist anyway because he's an arab.

And that he rammed a vehicle into people at a Christmas market

 

[Imari]

Probably better to keep your extreme views to yourself, just in case someone goes out and starts shooting the people you don’t like on your behalf

Mate, you can incite an insurrection against the government in the US and not get prosecuted for it. I think some dude on a random internet forum will be fine.

 

[novcze]

I have trust issues with politicians who lie through their teeth, and this situation isn't different. The Germans are afraid that they will also see a right wing rise in their political landscape and this story is far too convenient for my liking.

I don’t know what’s going on, but something doesn’t add up. The guy is anti-Islam, yet he plows through a Christmas market. Then again, he’s a psychiatrist, so maybe it’s some kind of professional deformation. Of course, Maral Salmassi's explanation could also be true, regardless of what some people here think.

 

[TexRex]

I don’t know what’s going on, but something doesn’t add up.

Trying to count to ten when you lost three fingers to the garbage disposal.

 

[Scaff]

I don’t know what’s going on, but something doesn’t add up. The guy is anti-Islam, yet he plows through a Christmas market. Then again, he’s a psychiatrist, so maybe it’s some kind of professional deformation. Of course, Maral Salmassi's explanation could also be true, regardless of what some people here think.

If it had been a white AfD follower, mad at the German government would you be asking the same?