Some people say: we can’t say “racist” to whom isult Muslims or Islam because Islam is not a race?

Question

so what we can call this ? ignorancism ? blindism??

Answer 1

You can call them close-minded, because they can't get over Osama Bin Ladin to see that most Muslims are good people. I hope this helps you.

Answer 2

That is true. Muslim is not a race, it's a religious affiliation. If someone insults Islam or Muslims (or any group or faith, really) they are often ignorant or hateful. But not racist.

On a side note: I read in an article that a Muslim is more likely to be South Asian or Black than an Arab. It makes sense considering Indonesia is the biggest Muslim country in the world.

Answer 3

Islam is not a race, but actually a way of life and is supposed to be a good way of life.
It is people who are ignorant and it is they who are the example of what they believe in. .
Remember people are those who constitute a race and if the people are ignorant in the first place than the race is truly ignorant.
To me you can't be ignorant and believe people are going to believe in your cause that's just stupid.

Answer 4

well islam is not a race it's a religion which people who follow the religion of islam are called muslims

Answer 5

Usually the word 'intolerance' is used in reference to religion-based hatred. People who hate all Muslims are intolerant of another religion.

Answer 6

Religious bigotry is probably the closest term I could come up with at this point.

Answer 7

Why don't you make up a few more words to answer your question with? Or, perhaps, you could try English?

Answer 8

courage to speak the truth.

Answer 9

uhhh prejudice? or bigotry?

Answer 10

The Cure for Racism

When he was in Makkah, Al-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X) wrote a letter to his loyal assistants in Harlem... from his heart:

America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.



"Never have I witnessed such sincere hospitality and overwhelming spirit of true brotherhood as is practiced by people of all colors and races here in this ancient Holy Land, the home of Abraham, Muhammad and all the other Prophets of the Holy Scriptures. For the past week, I have been utterly speechless and spellbound by the graciousness I see displayed all around me by people of all colors.

"I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca, I have made my seven circuits around the Ka'ba, led by a young Mutawaf named Muhammad, I drank water from the well of the Zam Zam. I ran seven times back and forth between the hills of Mt. Al-Safa and Al-Marwah. I have prayed in the ancient city of Mina, and I have prayed on Mt. Arafat.

"There were tens of thousands of pilgrims, from all over the world. They were of all colors, from blue-eyed blonds to black-skinned Africans. But we were all participating in the same ritual, displaying a spirit of unity and brotherhood that my experiences in America had led me to believe never could exist between the white and non-white.

"America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, and even eaten with people who in America would have been considered white - but the white attitude was removed from their minds by the religion of Islam. I have never before seen sincere and true brotherhood practiced by all colors together, irrespective of their color.

"You may be shocked by these words coming from me. But on this pilgrimage, what I have seen, and experienced, has forced me to rearrange much of my thought-patterns previously held, and to toss aside some of my previous conclusions. This was not too difficult for me. Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.

"During the past eleven days here in the Muslim world, I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept on the same rug - while praying to the same God - with fellow Muslims, whose eyes were the bluest of blue, whose hair was the blondest of blond, and whose skin was the whitest of white. And in the words and in the actions and in the deeds of the white Muslims, I felt the same sincerity that I felt among the black African Muslims of Nigeria, Sudan and Ghana.

"We were truly all the same (brothers) - because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the white from their behaviour, and the white from their attitude.

"I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the Oneness of Man - and cease to measure, and hinder, and harm others in terms of their 'differences' in color.

"With racism plaguing America like an incurable cancer, the so-called 'Christian' white American heart should be more receptive to a proven solution to such a destructive problem. Perhaps it could be in time to save America from imminent disaster - the same destruction brought upon Germany by racism that eventually destroyed the Germans themselves.

"Each hour here in the Holy Land enables me to have greater spiritual insights into what is happening in America between black and white. The American ***** never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to four hundred years of the conscious racism of the American whites. But as racism leads America up the suicide path, I do believe, from the experiences that I have had with them, that the whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the walls and many of them will turn to the spiritual path of truth - the only way left to America to ward off the disaster that racism inevitably must lead to.

"Never have I been so highly honored. Never have I been made to feel more humble and unworthy. Who would believe the blessings that have been heaped upon an American *****? A few nights ago, a man who would be called in America a white man, a United Nations diplomat, an ambassador, a companion of kings, gave me his hotel suite, his bed. Never would I have even thought of dreaming that I would ever be a recipient of such honors - honors that in America would be bestowed upon a King - not a *****.

"All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of all the Worlds.

Sincerely, Al-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz" (Malcolm X)

(From the "Autobiography of Malcolm X" with assistance from Alex Haley, the author of ROOTS)