[lbo-talk] Re: Islamophobogenic NY Times coverage

BklynMagus magcomm at ix.netcom.com
Wed Oct 11 09:15:38 PDT 2006


Dear List:

Yoshie writes:


> At a certain age, yes, in a conventional sense.

In what (unconventional) sense is religion not a choice? Certainly, it is not a choice for those who never achieve self-consciousness, but to me failure in this area is an indication of brain damage.


> But till children acquire critical self-consciousness,
they basically inherit their parents' and/or their community's religion or lack thereof.

Which is what marks them as children.


> It's not religion as such with which Europe has a
problem. It's a particular religion common among its new immigrants, and therein lies the difficulty.

The difficulty lies in Islam itself (as with all Abrahamic iterations). Whether Islam was introduced through immigrants or it was a native-born ideology, I think people would have a problem with it. What is complicating is the fact that people often use legitimate issues with regard to Islam as a stalking horse for anti-immigrant sentiments.

Brian Dauth Queer Buddhist Resister



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