The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #75063   Message #1423066
Posted By: CarolC
28-Feb-05 - 02:00 PM
Thread Name: Obit: More Muslim intolerance?
Subject: RE: Obit: More Muslim intolerence?
What I am suggesting is that threads like this one, in the context of what the government of the US is trying to accomplish in the world at this time, serve to help promote the kind of hatred of Muslims that the US government then uses to get legitimacy for its violations of human rights. If we make sure we confine discussions of how immigrant communities effect and are effected by the countries to which they migrate, and we also focus on this issue as it pertains to other immigrant communities besides the Muslim communities, we are doing something productive. As soon as we single out just the Muslim community as the subject of a thread about issues that are relevant to other communities as well, we are contributing to the promotion of hateful stereotypes and to discrimination against targed groups of people.

My point is that it is more constructive to focus on the behaviors that we think need to be changed, and then address all of the groups who engage in these behaviors, than it is to single out one group for our continual haranguing, which is what this thread was started for in the first place.