Australia: Survey finds many anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic

[Skybird]

What means "anti-Muslim"? Anti-skin colour? Hardly, Muslims can be any skin colour. Anti-ethnicity? Hardly, Muslims can be of any ethnicity. "Muslim" means confessing to Islamic ideology, and while this ideolgy itself is as racist as racism can be, being anti to this ideology is no racism, since ideology is no race.

Being anti-Islam however is a virtue of reasonability, intelligence and humanism, and a precondition for cultural enlightenment. To be told I am obviously against Islam and do not tolerate it, I take as a compliment these days (and any other).

The term "semites" is not any less tricky... So is "anti-semitism"... In contemporary language the lattert term means a dislike for Judaism and Jews, but being Jewish is not a racial feature. And semitic people are people belonging to a certain language-related lineage rooting back to some ancient figure in the bibvle, I think some relöative of Abraham. Which makes all Arabasd Semites, if I am not mistaken.

Is antipathy for Arabs nowadays the meaning of being anti-semitic in the modern use of the term



Aim your support or resistence at what is worth it: ideologies and their content, and cultural traditions and their behavior towards others.

[nikimcbee]

I think they only polled the Jews and muslims in Aussieland.

Being anti-Judaism however is a virtue of reasonability, intelligence and humanism, and a precondition for cultural enlightenment. To be told I am obviously against Jews and do not tolerate it, I take as a compliment these days (and any other).

So 1930s