{"id":1512,"date":"2015-07-30T20:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T20:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/?p=1512"},"modified":"2015-07-30T20:00:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T20:00:16","slug":"the-false-dichotomy-of-islamophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/2015\/07\/30\/the-false-dichotomy-of-islamophobia\/","title":{"rendered":"The False Dichotomy of Islamophobia"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a nuanced discussion of one of our favorite topics: Islamophobia, by Massimo Pigliucci on the website Scientia Salon<\/em>. <\/p>\n

One snippet: “While the statistics on international terrorism are complex and can be read in a number of ways, there is little doubt even in the mind of sympathetic commentators like CNN\u2019s Fared Zakaria that contemporary Islam does have a problem with violence and oppression (especially of women and gays).”<\/p>\n

And another: “simply pointing out that Islamic ideas play a role in contemporary terrorism and repression does not make one a Islamophobe, and using the label blindly is simply an undemocratic, and unreflective, way of cutting off critical discourse.” <\/p>\n

Read the whole essay here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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