Comments on: Muslimism: Questions of Obama’s Faith are Really Motivated by Racism http://www.pensitoreview.com/2008/01/21/questions-of-obamas-faith-are-really-motivated-by-racism/ News and Opinion on Politics and Media Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:12:35 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Buck http://www.pensitoreview.com/2008/01/21/questions-of-obamas-faith-are-really-motivated-by-racism/comment-page-1/#comment-451127 Buck Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:17:56 +0000 http://www.pensitoreview.com/2008/01/21/questions-of-obamas-faith-are-really-motivated-by-racism/#comment-451127 John: I don't deal in hypotheticals. It's not a white Muslim guy running for prez, it's a black Christian guy being accused of being a Muslim. And the fact that you allege that "huge swathes of the American public" are scared of Muslims seems to back my point. Also, I don't automatically associate religion with race, but in the case of Barack Obama, the two are intimately intertwined, a point obviously too subtle for you to grok. Sorry, I'm sticking with "Muslimism," Editor in Chief Jon thinks it's a cool word and when one coins a neologism (look it up, John), one should not abandon it at the first sign of dipstick dissent. John:

I don’t deal in hypotheticals. It’s not a white Muslim guy running for prez, it’s a black Christian guy being accused of being a Muslim. And the fact that you allege that “huge swathes of the American public” are scared of Muslims seems to back my point.

Also, I don’t automatically associate religion with race, but in the case of Barack Obama, the two are intimately intertwined, a point obviously too subtle for you to grok.

Sorry, I’m sticking with “Muslimism,” Editor in Chief Jon thinks it’s a cool word and when one coins a neologism (look it up, John), one should not abandon it at the first sign of dipstick dissent.

]]> By: John http://www.pensitoreview.com/2008/01/21/questions-of-obamas-faith-are-really-motivated-by-racism/comment-page-1/#comment-450533 John Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:26:34 +0000 http://www.pensitoreview.com/2008/01/21/questions-of-obamas-faith-are-really-motivated-by-racism/#comment-450533 So you think that if a white candidate had had a Muslim father and stepfather, and had grown up in an Islamic country, it wouldn't have occurred to anyone to run a smear campaign suggesting that he was a Muslim, at a time when huge swathes of the American public are terrified of Muslims? I think that's rather naive. Meanwhile the fact that you automatically associate religion with race - a lot of people around the world would call that racist. Its such an easy accusation to make, isn't it? PS You might want to rethink your "Muslimism" coinage, considering that "Islamism" refers to something very different, while "Islamophobia" refers to the exact thing you're describing. Confusing... So you think that if a white candidate had had a Muslim father and stepfather, and had grown up in an Islamic country, it wouldn’t have occurred to anyone to run a smear campaign suggesting that he was a Muslim, at a time when huge swathes of the American public are terrified of Muslims? I think that’s rather naive.

Meanwhile the fact that you automatically associate religion with race – a lot of people around the world would call that racist. Its such an easy accusation to make, isn’t it?

PS You might want to rethink your “Muslimism” coinage, considering that “Islamism” refers to something very different, while “Islamophobia” refers to the exact thing you’re describing. Confusing…

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