{"id":2143,"date":"2013-01-28T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/01\/islamaphobia-in-action.html"},"modified":"2013-01-28T11:23:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T11:23:00","slug":"islamaphobia-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/01\/islamaphobia-in-action.html","title":{"rendered":"Islamaphobia in action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Or rather Multi-Cultural Political Correctness that is. \u00a0We all know that PC is simply some vague form of societal censorship, being used mostly by post-Christian, post-Western forces to silence debate and shut down dialogue. \u00a0Multi-Culturalism\u00a0is, of course, it\u2019s greatest ally. \u00a0Born from the\u00a0noble\u00a0desire to impress upon American and\u00a0European\u00a0children the contributions of other cultures (while not realizing that the West had always, as it continues to, filtered these contributions through the latest biases of Western academia), the\u00a0point\u00a0was to look at\u00a0other\u00a0cultures and civilizations from a completely\u00a0detached\u00a0point of view. \u00a0Who were we to judge\u00a0the\u00a0Chinese, Aztecs,\u00a0Polynesians\u00a0 or any other people? \u00a0Whatever they\u00a0did\u00a0was to be studied, not condemned. \u00a0Of course we could condemn\u00a0the\u00a0hell out of anything in Western History till the cows come home. \u00a0A popular tendency embraced by many cultures and nations around the world.<\/p>\n

And that has brought about such things as this story<\/a>, in which Austrian Turks are outraged that a Lego set based on Jabba the Hutt\u2019s palace from the Star Wars<\/i> franchise bears even a minor resemblance to the Hagia Sophia. Not that it is the only building in the world with a dome, but I guess it\u2019s too close for comfort. \u00a0A reader over at CAEI<\/a> catches the\u00a0hypocritical\u00a0irony: how many of those same Turks are outraged at just why it\u2019s one of the most famous\u00a0mosques\u00a0in the world, as opposed to\u00a0one\u00a0of the most famous Christian churches? \u00a0That\u00a0this is missed by the Telegraph shows the utter spinelessness of the post-Christian West to call out anyone but our own forebears. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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So much alike, who can tell? \u00a0Obviously proof of Lego\u2019s deep seated \u00a0Islamaphobia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Or rather Multi-Cultural Political Correctness that is. \u00a0We all know that PC is simply some vague form of societal censorship, being used mostly by post-Christian, post-Western forces to silence debate and shut down dialogue. \u00a0Multi-Culturalism\u00a0is, of course, it\u2019s greatest ally. \u00a0Born from the\u00a0noble\u00a0desire to impress upon American and\u00a0European\u00a0children the contributions of other cultures (while not […]<\/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-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nIslamaphobia in action<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Or rather Multi-Cultural Political Correctness that is.  We all know that PC is simply some vague form of societal censorship, being used 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