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What is the Iraqi toll now, 650,000?

That figure is at least a year or more old, though it's not an official figure, but rather a guestimate.

It also doesn't include the million or so Iraqi's that died during the sanctions/blockade, nor the million or so Iranians dead in the US sanctioned war Iraq/Iran war, nor the hmmm haven't seen a figure, but the tens of thousands murdered during the reign of the Iranian Shah after the US staged a coup there to put him in power.

That said, as you probably know, I think Islam is the most dangerous religion on earth. It is perhaps the only one that permits lying in the furtherance of the religion, and imposes a duty to convert by whatever means possible, including convert or die tactics. The different sects of Islam don't agree with each other, to such a degree that many don't see the other as muslim at all...unless the other is attacked by an infidel at least. So it's a choice of a world at war, or a world at war, according to that religion (though I doubt they'd ever admit it)

Go, Bunny, Go

...I would think the US, you guys and us have now killed way more Muslims in the name of anti terror than they have killed us. What is the Iraqi toll now, 650,000?...

Then you lack knowledge of the English language....since phobia is defined as an irrational fear of.

Marchers chanted "Shame, shame on the UK", "No tolerance - execution" and "Kill her, kill her by firing squad".

There are two problems with the word Islamophobia imo. First it mixes up the person with the religion. Islamophobia is defined as prejudice against Muslims, but I object to that because I'm not. I'm prejudiced against Islam, not Muslims per se. Being prejudiced against Muslims is displaying racism because its directed at the person not the idea. A Muslim is a human being, Islam is a religion. What part of Islamophobia refers to an irrational fear of a certain group of people called Muslim? The truly racist word would be Muslimophobia. Is a monetarist economist necessarily a racist because he is anti-Marxist? Of course not. He's prejudiced against Marxism, not his fellow economist.

The second problem I have is with Islamophobia. I am not a follower of Islam. But their holy texts have many references as to what should be done with us non-believers, very few of them generous in spirit. Therefore my fear is not irrational as the word phobia implies. The fear factor is not great but its real and understandable. And if I was Jewish female or homosexual...I would have a lot more to fear from Islam.

So the word Islamophobia is a nonsense imo, and using it casually to imply racism is just plain wrong.

Islamophobia is a controversial term that refers to prejudice or discrimination against Islam or Muslims.[1] The term dates back to the late 1980s,[2] but came into common usage after the September 11, 2001 attacks.[3] In 1997, the British Runnymede Trust defined Islamophobia as the "dread or hatred of Islam and therefore, to the fear and dislike of all Muslims," stating that it also refers to the practice of discriminating against Muslims by excluding them from the economic, social, and public life of the nation. It includes the perception that Islam has no values in common with other cultures, is inferior to the West and is a violent political ideology rather than a religion.[4] Steps were taken toward official acceptance of the term in January 2001 at the "Stockholm International Forum on Combating Intolerance", where Islamophobia was recognized as a form of intolerance alongside Xenophobia and Antisemitism.[5]
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Notes
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Sandra Fredman, Discrimination and Human Rights, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0199246033, p.121.
Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Muslims in the West: From Sojourners to Citizens, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0195148061, p.19
Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All, Runnymede Trust, 1997, p. 1, cited in Quraishi, Muzammil. Muslims and Crime: A Comparative Study, Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2005, p. 60. ISBN 075464233X. Early in 1997, the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia, at that time part of the Runnymede Trust, issued a consultative document on Islamophobia under the chairmanship of Professor Gordon Conway, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sussex. The final report, Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All, was launched in November 1997 by Home Secretary Jack Straw.
Edward Kessler, Neil Wenborn, A Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521826926 p.429.
Abduljalil Sajid. "Islamophobia: A New Word for an Old Fear" in Islamophobia and Antisemitism, Markus Wiener Publishers, 2006, p. 1: defines the term as "anti-Muslim prejudice."
Social Inequalities in Comparative Perspective By Mary C. Waters, Fiona Devine, pg. 106
Muslims in Western Europe By Jørgen S. Nielsen, pg. 169
2. Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All, Runnymede Trust, 1997, p. 1, cited in Quraishi, Muzammil. Muslims and Crime: A Comparative Study, Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2005, p. 60; Annan, Kofi. "Secretary-General, addressing headquarters seminar on confronting Islamophobia", United Nations press release, December 7, 2004.
3. Casciani, Dominic. "Islamophobia pervades UK - report", BBC News, June 2, 2004.
Rima Berns McGowan writes in Muslims in the Diaspora (University of Toronto Press, 1991, p. 268) that the term "Islamophobia" was first used in an unnamed American periodical in 1991.
4. Runnymede 1997, p. 5, cited in Quraishi 2005, p. 60.
5. New Muslims in the European Context: The Experience of Scandinavian Converts - p. 53, Brill 2004

The believer of the religion Islam is called a Muslim, from the active particle of Islam.

Phobia is an extreme, irrational fear of a specific object or situation.

Hundreds of words have been coined to specify the nature of the fear by prefixing "phobia" with the Greek word for the object feared.

I think the people who are calling for her death should be mowed down in the street themselves..... that's my knee jerk reaction.... on the other hand.... what person in their RIGHT F**KING MIND would leave their home and go to one of these bat **** crazy countries in the first place to live and work? They've got too know when they go that something like this could happen....
I know if I go to feed the Polar Bears and just walk in the cage carrying raw meat that my chances aren't so good..... so I don't do it.

This woman, although she has my total support and sympathy, along with anyone else who chooses to go to these countries and live among these shithouse rat crazy **** is a prime candidate for a Darwin Award.....

A lot of people may agree with that but she is a decent person trying to do the best for local children and had no idea how vicious religion can be.

This is a 54 year old woman who has done nothing wrong except wanting to teach Sudanese children to speak English. She has been sentenced to 15 days imprisonment. This is an outrage.

The world is full of nuts.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/27/world/africa/27sudan.html?hp

Come and get me islamofascist freaks.