Right, because their politics (however bad they may be) justify you condemning one of the world's largest religión based in the action of some radicals... Right, gonna leave you meditate for a bit about your line of thought, hopefully you'll realize by yourself why is wrong.
The way it was told to me, the point of not drawing depictions of the prophet was so that he wasn't idolized or put on a pedestal. He was merely the prophet of the lord, not the lord himself (as Christians believe Jesus to be), and thus he wasn't deserving of worship. The point of not depicting him was to remind Muslims that they should be worshipping the lord and not the prophet. I have no idea if this is true or not, but it makes a lot of sense to me. And if it's true, it's pretty ironic considering the outcome of that practice.
There's no good reason for Islamophobia, or trying to justify it. If we ever got up to seriously discussing atrocities committed by certain other nationalities (i.e. Europeans, France very much included), ethnicities (i.e. whites), and religious groups (i.e. Christians) in the last few centuries, we'd be here forever - and yet they're never used to speak for those groups at large, despite being equally, if not more so, prevalent. Terrorist attacks like these are awful, and using them to promote bigotry is equally so. Moreover, your line of reasoning here is not only backwards, it's very dangerous and I would suggest thinking seriously about what you're saying here. In the West, one wouldn't get away with suggesting that there's a good reason for anti-white or anti-Christian backlash at large when their extremists commit terrorist attacks. Likewise, one shouldn't suggest that there's a good reason for Islamophobia when extremists from those groups do the same.
"I also want to clarify that I have no intentions to generalize all Muslims as extremists and have not made attempts to personally attack anyone here (though this should be obvious, anyways) solely based on their Muslim faith."
1. Islam is second largest religion in the world, but that's besides the point.
Personally I don't subscribe to Islamophobia (if you're talking it to mean hating Muslims) and I won't, but I don't blame people from becoming one as long as these events continue to happen.
That's why added the bit, "... or justify it", which is what you admit that you're doing. Justifying the blind hatred of an entire religious group because of something extremists did is just as bad as being one of those people. And it's a dangerous mindset for people to have because it emboldens them.
I'm not saying that you hate Muslims, I don't know you, but I am saying that you're justifying a backwards, dangerous mindset (Islamaphobia) that is not limited to the extremists who commit terrorist attacks such as these but all Muslims.
Muslims have condemned the Paris incident: https://rudaw.net/english/world/10012015. They've also condemned extremist groups like ISIS, too.
I think the problem here is definition of Islamophobia. You're taking it to mean hatred of Muslims, and I'm taking it to mean hatred of Islam. Which both are plausiable definitions. I think a more consistent definition of Islamophobia needs to be established in order for us to discuss this further.
KKK is nowhere as relevant as it was (and yes, I know it's still around), especially compared to radical Muslims today.
When did I say otherwise?
No, what you don't get to do is dissmiss an entire religion and it's billions of practicioners on the basis of what a few thousand radicals do, it'd be as if I were to condemn the entirery of christianism based on the actions of some radicals (Anders Breivik, Lord's resistance army, national liberation front, etc; do any of these ring a bell? )
This is one of the stupidest things I've read in years, especially when you go on to say that:
Your own words condemn you as an islamophobe, and I think I don't even need to dwelve in reasons for why that is wrong, but think, would you like to be discriminated against because of the actions of people you share nothing with besides your religion? ...
Well, US does have over a hundred people unlawfully detained (many on foreing countries that were not even aware of the US operating there) on an out of country military base while dennying they qualify for the protection of the geneva conventions and does not plan on ever releasing them or to actually charge them with something, so yeah, not only I could see it happening, it has been happening for years now.
Yes it can, most muslim leaders do condemn terrorist attacks and the like, however if you just look for validation of your thoughts that's what you're going to find, the few islamic radical leaders that praise these attacks.
