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[–]quickbeam 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Given that the OP is posting in English and seems to be coming from a Western perspective, I decided to respond from a Western perspective and specified that I was doing so in order to clarify my viewpoint. The world is so large and so full of variables that it would be impossible to have a sensible discussion on Islamophobia if we didn't clarify our perspectives/countries and the contexts we are living in because institutional power/cultural norms matter when discussing discrimination and bias. You cite articles from the Middle East or Nigeria, but those are very different contexts. Maybe they are your context, I don't know, as you haven't said where you are from. My suspicion is that you are not from those areas, however. I have actually lived and worked in a non-Western country for years and I wasn't even raised in a religion, so I'm able to kind of look at religions as more or less equally valid/equally weird and I do have an international perspective. But I guess though by labeling me a "U.S. supremacist" who hasn't traveled you feel you can muddle the discussion further.

Really, you come off as someone who has a huge ax to grind with Muslims, and I don't feel like engaging you further as a result. I was wrong about the prevalence of hate crimes but only because Jewish people are the victim of so many more hate crimes than Muslims. Muslims still have the dubious honor of coming in second, however. https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2018/topic-pages/victims

As to the bulk of anti-Muslim bias coming from immigrant communities - where's your statistic for that? I doubt that it's the case simply because such groups make up such a small % of total U.S. citizens and I know plenty of white people who love saying Islamophobic crap and believe ridiculous things about Islam.

Anyway, feel free to write another paragraphs long response, but I'm disengaging. You can't have a good faith discussion when you won't acknowledge that context matters and it's impossible to have a realistic conversation about religious/racial bias on a personal level when your context is the entire world and all of history as well.