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Can we talk about how rampant Christian Islamophobia is? (www.reddit.com)

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Every time I’m on social media and it’s a Christian majority comment section or niche , whenever they comment on anything about Muslims it all becomes over simplified and explained through racist Islamophobia. I’ve realized that during the Gaza genocide , a lot of Christian accounts have been not only fervently Zionist , but also using Islamophobia to explain away the situation in Palestine. I’ve seen this now with Syria too. With the recent massacres of Syria’s minorities , there have been a number of Christians explaining away Syria’s situation through using Islamophobia rather than talking about the geopolitical situation on the ground , foreign involvement , the oppression of the dictatorships et cetera. It’s as though the actual politics on the ground mean nothing to these people and for these Christian Islamophobes any and everything that happens in the so called « Muslim world » (even if non Muslims are doing the actions) is only explained away as « this is what Islam commands (injustice oppression darkness etc) » or « it’s a religion of war mongering and killing » and this includes situations where Muslims are also the victims of these atrocities.

For these Christian Islamophobes , when the victim is a Muslim , they secularize or christianize the victims. For instance , if it’s a shi’i minority being persecuted and there’s 1 or 2 Christian’s who got killed along with the shi’i or whoever the minority is, the Christian Islamophobes will make generalizing statements as though the victims were mostly Christian or leave out that the victims are even Muslims. Or they will use the name of the sect completely leaving out that this sect is Muslim too. On the flip side, when they secularize it, these people will remove the religious affiliation of the victims while only describing the religious affiliation of the perpetrators which in effect creates an image of Muslims as the perpetual bad guys and Muslims as never the victims of atrocities.

And the crazy part is that whenever anyone mentions Israel’s involvement in the situation of anywhere where there’s a large Muslim population it’s , « Israel has nothing to do with it ». Or they say stuff like « you all like to blame the west » despite the overwhelming evidence of the west’s involvement in the given situation.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I can't say I've ever seen people "christianizing" victims, which is kind of ironic given that there is a sizeable Palestinian Christian population who are directly suffering due to the zionism of certain Christian groups.