What do you guys think about the rapid rise in Islamophobia across the world? : AskMiddleEast

can understand people from cultures with experience with Muslims. Most persian Americans I meet hate Islam because of Iran's government. Some people leave Islam because their families were too absolutist with it towards them. I can even understand Europeans who have difficulty with their everyday lives because of immigrants from a diff culture. That's their experience with the 2nd largest religion in the world. Were going to have enemies. Some of us will misbehave. It makes sense. You can't argue experience. Their opinions are set and I don't feel I have a right to tell them otherwise.

I'm Bangladeshi American Muslim and I take issue with Indians and white Americans who hate Islam. Because I know the cultural context and I feel like I'm allowed to say they're full of shit in these situations. White Americans who never meet Muslims and just watch the media truly do believe their culture is superior to others and many feel entitled to feel that way. Even more irritating is when they double down on their ignorance when even they don't know wtf they talking about.

Indians it's also kinda personal because my country broke off from theirs partially on the premise of Muslim culture. Yet they still feel they have entitlement to tell us what to do and who we are. Indian Muslims are a very small percentage of their population. And many Indian nationals online are butt kissers to the white man. They wanna frick Israeli girls who think they're corny sexy Indian dudes. Not all Indians, just some online hindutvas. Most Indians I meet in real life are cool and we usually connect based on our common culture rather than the religious differences.

I have friends who joined the US military and became racist to Muslims afterwards. I get that you were fighting these people and you hate being shot at, but it doesn't mean I need to talk to you anymore if you look down on my background. I don't need to take abuse and have that much empathy. Well go our separate ways.

I have the most problems with white people personally, particularly white Americans. I haven't been to Europe in a while, but white Americans always think they can tell Japanese how to run their society and how pc their anime should be. They think they should have some ownership over aspects of black American culture, like hip hop for example and can't stand black people having anything of their own. They go to east and southeast Asia and expect women to cater to them. They have the most opinions on Muslim majority cultures, but have the least experience with us. Their ancestors came here and screwed over the amerindians and now they even look down on native Americans on THEIR native land. They think they're entitled to look down on others and start crying when you criticize their culture. They think one second of being told "yall have alcoholism and can't show your butt everywhere" is equivalent to 300 years of slavery.

I kind of got off topic but my point is that I get really angry with white American arrogance as much as I try not to make things racial, but as a culture, they just seem across the board entitled and arrogant. And comments about my religion, my culture, and even adjacent cultures (I'm not persian, arab, central asian, or north African, but I do feel some degree of commonality with yall based on the Muslim thing mostly. Its been a point of connection with people from these cultures in real life) really make me angry at a very deep level. Because I have experienced this attitude from them in real life.

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