=OBS= EstebanRey wrote:
S.Lythberg wrote:
=OBS= EstebanRey wrote:
I voted no because for it to exist you would have to also have Christianophobia, Hinduophobia, Jewophobia etc. I have never heard any of those terms before have you?
That isn’t saying people can’t discriminate against a Muslim because of his religion but then he would be a bigot or a racist and not an “Islamophobe”.
Anti-semitism?? never heard of it?
Christianophobia certainly does exist in Arab nations, and Indian muslims hate the Hindus as well
But antisemitism isn’t the same as “Islamophobia”. A phobia is a
fear of something, in this case Islam, where as antisemitism is the
hostility towards people who are semites (i.e a member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Near East and northern Africa, including the Arabs, Arameans, Babylonians, Carthaginians, Ethiopians, Hebrews, and Phoenicians & Jews), it’s just since WW2, people only tend to use it to describe discrimination against Jews. Technically no Arab can be anti-Semitic without hating himself.
My point is have one term to describe the ill-treatment of someone because of their religion (whatever it is), there’s no need for a separate word for every faith.
Don't take these words literally. Both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are a form of discrimination and hate towards a group of people, based on Religion, ethnicity, etc.