Racist means making a judgment based on race. Islam is not a race. It is a religion, a school of thought.
Prejudice is making a decision about someone in advance of knowing his motives - hence the prefix pre. It's the judgment of people in advance, based on immutable characteristics RATHER than their ideas. It's judging a book by its cover.
I'm not judging a book by its cover. I've read the book. I'm judging it based on its content, which is kill, maim, dismember people who don't follow the rest of its content. I'm judging a school of thought that says women are inferior, Christians and Jews are not to be among your friends and are to be enslaved and made to pay a tax and then only after you've killed a bunch of them.
You can agree or disagree with my reaction Islam but it is NOT racist and it is NOT prejudiced.
2007-04-09
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