A well written article<\/a> reminding us to be cautious about the pitfall of just charging in and labeling anyone with disagreements about Islam as Islamaphobic bigots. It\u2019s all the rage.\u00a0 Just like people who questioned a national holiday for Martin Luther King, Jr. were racists, and anyone who even thought about suggesting that men and women are different were sexists.\u00a0 Today, don\u2019t accept gay marriage or gay normality and you\u2019re a homophobic bigot.\u00a0 And of course, the latest installment of that tactic, if you don\u2019t accept the modern narrative regarding Islam \u2013 whatever that may be \u2013 then it\u2019s just Islamaphobic bigotry.\u00a0 For my money, the word bigotry sounds harsher when it isn\u2019t used as an alternative to an Archie-Bunker like version of Stifle it Dingbat!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A well written article reminding us to be cautious about the pitfall of just charging in and labeling anyone with disagreements about Islam as Islamaphobic bigots. It\u2019s all the rage.\u00a0 Just like people who questioned a national holiday for Martin Luther King, Jr. were racists, and anyone who even thought about suggesting that men and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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