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[True Earthling]

74. Not sure it's a "cheap trick to attempt to put the religion beyond criticism"

IMO there are two cognitive reasoning errors I see by people who tend to call out others as Islamaphobic...

1. People who use the Islamaphobia card are more likely to confuse religion with race. Religion is well defined by ideology and dogma...race is more fuzzy and nuanced. Since religion and race and tend to overlap in many parts of the world it's easy to assume that race heavily influences the choice of religion...it doesn't. The lines of distinction between religion and race doesn't exist to a person who shouts Islamaphobia and that same view is presumed to exist in others..which in most cases it doesn't.

2. Another error is to suspect or assume a comment made about a single individual is a broad statement about that person's race. My intuition is that people who use the Islamaphobic argument are always on high alert for racism and tend to have a hair trigger response for the smallest sign that racism is lurking behind any negative comment towards a minority individual. In many cases these signs don't exist except in the mind of the accuser through assumptions and leaps of logic. Somewhere I read this statement and I agree with it..."The individual who is always on the lookout for racism will tend to find it...whether it exists or not"