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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can you expand on this point? It’s not immediately clear what difference you are trying to highlight.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

One is mocking the belief of a group by portraying it as ridiculous, the other is a bigoted portrayal of a group as homicidal on the basis of their belief.

The meme isn't offensive toward 'religious fruitcakes' (the use of this word is kinda ironic but unrelated), it's actively bigoted and Islamophobic. Socsa was presumably defending the meme by saying they enjoy offending all religions and not just islam, and I was pointing out that the post wasn't simply offensive, it was bigoted.

Edit: responding here because this post was removed on my home instance for Islamophobia.


you’re still coming across to me as just saying “it’s never ok to criticize bad Islamic practices, it’s automatically bigotry.

It isn't a critique, it is portraying Muslims as fanatical murderers.

I assume you find the practice of brutally murdering people for the act of drawing a picture of a fictional character to be bad. How would you phrase a legitimate criticism of the practice without being bigoted?

In the same way that you would 'critique' Christianity, which justifies acts of terror such as bombing PFP clinics with Genesis 9:6, or Romans 13.

Extremists in Christianity are not seen as representative of the faith, but they are for Islam.