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Gotta really "love" the fact that extremist Islamic country treats a whole host of people horribly (women, gays, non-muslims).

But if you say anything about it, you're an islamophobe.

Same way if you criticize Israel's actions, youre lambasted as a jew-hater. But at least now thats starting to change.

Gotta really "love" the fact that bigots and xenophobes treat a whole host of religions and regions horribly.

To them Islamic or Arab is monoculture.

Same way all countries in the Mid East are all barbaric and savage. But at least now thats starting to change.

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Because people in the former group don't criticize those countries, they criticize Islam, and tend to categorize all Muslims (specifically Muslim immigrants) as ontologically evil.

Meanwhile people in the latter group tend to be very specific that their criticism is of a state and its policies, rather than the religion of Judaism or Jews in general, even though their efforts tend to fall on deaf ears.

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