I skimmed over your answers and you seem like a sexist Islamophobe. Did you know that a Muslim tried to stop one of the terrorists that tried to bomb himself? Just because one woman tried to blow herself up doesn’t mean that all women will. Look at FEMEN. They run around topless and sometimes with bombs strapped around themselves. That doesn’t mean all feminists do that. You know, the opposite of love is not hatred-it’s fear. Fear drives hatred in a society.
Thank you so much for your home-spun wisdom.
No, the opposite of love is hatred. Or apathy.
Fear is an emotional response that warns of possible danger. It may or may not be rationally justified, but it would be decidedly irrational merely to dismiss all fears as unwarranted.
And, no, fear doesn’t “drive all hatred in a society.” Often these two have very little to do with each other, although claiming that they do helps you convince the gullible that you are somehow right to chastise them.
But thanks for trying to work out the pathology of fear and hatred in such unhelpful and largely deceptive terms.
For example, I have a fear of bugs. That fear caused me to hate them. I don’t like them and I don’t want to see one. I don’t want to go near one and if I see one, I get out of the room. I hope they don’t come anywhere near me and I hope that they get exterminated. Don’t you see a pattern in what I had to say about bugs? Just replace the bugs with Muslims…I heard people say those same exact things.
Let’s not “replace bugs with Muslims” because your example is much too intimately linked to your own irrational fear of bugs to be of any use to me. I suspect that you are doing a bit of “projecting” in terms of how you view your fears, how you are driven by them and how you might be incapacitated by them, onto me – as if your fears have anything to do with me in the first instance. I have NO fear of bugs whatsoever and mostly that is because I have studied them and know something about them.
Instead of “bugs” – which most people don’t fear because there are relatively few reasons to fear what “bugs” are in the technical sense, and since what many people mean by “bugs” is something indefinite like “invertebrate-like things that crawl around,” the word is virtually useless, anyway – let’s use “spiders,” instead.
Many people have at least some fear of spiders. And there is some warrant for being afraid, or at least cautious about some spiders. The word “arachnophobia” is mostly overused – much like your use of the word “Islamophobia.” It is far too wide a brush. Arachnophobia, if it is to be a “phobia” at all, means a severe, irrational and debilitating fear of spiders. The reason the word “irrational” appears in the definition is because there is some warrant for normal people to fear or at least be wary of spiders. Virtually all of them are venomous although most of their bites cause little in the way of permanent harm. Quite a few do have, however, fatal bites and it would be a wise thing to know something about spiders before you pick them up or invite thousands of them into your house. (Perhaps you are seeing the analogy, at this point?)
In other words, it would NOT be an irrational fear of spiders – i.e., NOT arachnophobia – to express caution and concern about unidentified spiders being let loose in your household. It would be the prudent thing to do some spider ID to make sure which spiders are involved and how dangerous those individuals actually are to the human beings you pretend to care about. It would be positively negligent of you not to.
It would NOT be a wise thing to call people who DO know something about spiders and who are warning you to show some caution before permitting them free access to the skins of people you care about, “arachnophobes.” Your own LACK of knowledge of spiders should not permit you to act with such abandon and disregard for those you purportedly care about, nor should your willingness to smack others over the head with big words like “arachnophobic,” function as a substitute for sound knowledge and due regard where spiders are concerned.
Whether or not you can make sense of the above paragraphs will probably go a long way to determine whether you have any competence whatsoever with regard to using such words as “islamophobe” or “sexist” in anything like a meaningful or legitmate way, but nonetheless, I am quite certain you will continue to throw such words around with abandon.
I choose not to even dignify such words, however, because they are pretty much meaningless with regard to arriving at an accurate depiction of the issues or regarding the people who have them, except for SJW types who love such terms but who really shouldn’t be permitted to use them because most of them couldn’t think their way out of a paper bag anyway, since “feelings” are the schtick they like to beat others with.
Go ahead, flail away, if it makes you FEEL better.
Islam or not.
