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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where does "Christian-evangelical-crusader-Islamophobe" fell into the micro aggression categories?[/quote]

It was an emotional reaction to the hostility on these threads toward Islam for which I have apologized already. Muslims have yet to receive any apology for the Islam bashing on DCUM, however.[/quote]
You've posted many, many insults and only one apology.  It's OK to doubt its sincerity. No one expressed hostility to you PERSONALLY yet you went to great lengths to invent personal insults for posters who were less than impressed with your faith. One can be forgiven for not believing the current, apologetic, peaceful you.[/quote]

So I have had the distinct displeasure of suffering through an Islamaphobic tirade while at university.  One of my classmate's family was a friend of Jack Anderson, a muckraker columnist, who was nationally syndicated for decades.  He was quite old at the time and I assume he has since died.

He was a mandatory guest speaker and spent the entire hour bashing Islam, but in particular bashing their god (it was oral, but clearly he meant the lower case g).  I have never heard anyone pronounce the word Allah with such derision.  The price of gas, terrorism, economic malaise of the Middle Eat and all kinds of other evils were the direct result of fanatic Islamic devotion to Allah.

I am convinced my classmates had no idea that Allah is simply the Arabic word for God.  If he had used God instead, I think a number would have run him out for blasphemy (it was a Catholic university).  I tried to tell others after that we had just heard a huge blast on God, but most didn't get it.  The speaker was pretty much guilty of all 5 categories, plus others, and the totality came to macro-aggression.

BTW Jack Anderson was not exactly a fundamentalist Christian; he was Mormon.  The classmate who had arranged for him to speak, also Mormon, told me that the reason women were poorly treated in Islam was because it sanctioned polygamy.  From a Mormon???!!![/quote]

Check out the prayer thread. It happens to all religions; this isn't a specifically Muslim problem by any stretch. On the prayer thread, the so-called phobia doesn't take the form of disagreement, it's flat-out name-calling. The answer is never going to be complaining about it. [/quote]

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