Fighting the Demonization of Muslims - Deepa Kumar on Reality Asserts Itself (2/5)

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
  • Dr. Kumar says after 9/11, with the ratcheting up of anti-Muslim racism, she decided she had to do something about it

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  • @elgringorumbero
    @elgringorumbero 10 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Deepa Kumar is awesome

    • @xDevacorex
      @xDevacorex 10 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I'm on just 2/5 but she is very intelligent in my opinion. Not too many people can see past their world view and defend all people. I personally believe that is the core message of socialism.

  • @BillBillingsly
    @BillBillingsly 10 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Wonderful interview. I am slowly awakening to the propaganda that has been spreading on both sides of this issue.

  • @MaximilianKohler
    @MaximilianKohler 10 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Religion doesn't deserve to be defended. Just because there are rational people who eschew the parts of their religious texts that they deem to be too extreme or outdated, doesn't mean that they are the true representations of that religion, or that the religion itself isn't an awful thing.

    • @xDevacorex
      @xDevacorex 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That's the same argument the religious extremist say about the atheist or non believers. Are you trying to give it validity?

    • @MaximilianKohler
      @MaximilianKohler 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Kafka Dev Wtf? That doesn't make any sense. Atheists don't have religious texts that contain extreme, barbaric, and anachronistic instructions. There is no atheist equivalent to ISIS, Hamas, Al Qaeda etc..

    • @xDevacorex
      @xDevacorex 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      MaximilianKohler Type in atheist extremist groups in google and pick one. I understand, your religion is of knowledge and the truth; I get your kind at my door once a month but I speak up against religious intolerance.

    • @mrjuderh5472
      @mrjuderh5472 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      Totally agree with you.

    • @MaximilianKohler
      @MaximilianKohler 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Kafka Dev There is no such thing. This is satire: dailycurrant.com/2014/07/29/radical-atheists-kill-29-in-middle-east-suicide-bombing/
      And I don't believe for a second that there are door to door atheists showing up once a month at your place to tell you how wonderful atheism is.

  • @theghostofhumankindness4312
    @theghostofhumankindness4312 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    I take issue with the notion that being anti-Islam is being racist. Islam is a religion.

    • @jackchorn
      @jackchorn 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      Judaism is also a religion not a race. Believist? Faithist?

    • @theghostofhumankindness4312
      @theghostofhumankindness4312 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      There is actually a debate as to whether Jews are a race - Semites. Many people consider themselves Jewish but not religious.

    • @jackchorn
      @jackchorn 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      TheGhostof HumanKindness sure. But if we want to say race as Asian-African- Caucasian it seems that jews would be a religious follower. Just as many Christians are Caucasian and the majority might have a typical western European features doesn't make a Christian race, or maybe in a few thousand more years.
      But I understand what your saying, I just don't see jews as a race.

  • @jeanlockwoodbonnie588
    @jeanlockwoodbonnie588 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    I dont speak English because nobody likes me. I wonder what the Japanese think of THAT.

  • @jackchorn
    @jackchorn 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    She mentions NC, its full of people who see the duck dynasty guy as their intellectual leader. This is the man who said on national tv we should "convert or kill them".
    I try to have conversations with people but they are simply so closed in their belief they ignore facts when it conflicts with their belief. Not only religious but political and economic.
    One guy thought that to be in the 1% of earners your income was in the billions per year and He is not alone because they all believe and defend a system they have no comprehension of.
    Their reality is based only in Belief, not only spiritually but political and economic. Its always the same response when the facts are presented, they simply shut off or get angry.

  • @jeanlockwoodbonnie588
    @jeanlockwoodbonnie588 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ω NO NAME. aum owm oum own oun. omega is me. Whatever means something to the reader. Mines not the only opinion. Im not afraid the worst is over.

  • @YouTodayKing
    @YouTodayKing 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Race can take on two definitions. One is biological, and the other social. Jewish people are considered a race, but only socially. There is no good biological basis for it. For being a Jew is also a religious statement, as well as one of race identification. This is true, even though many jewish people can simply pass for run-of-the-mill Caucasians. Considering the vast majority of Muslims are not white, and also that they have a particular "look" to them. Muslims can definitely be considered a socially constructed race, more so than Jews.

  • @MeColinYouWho
    @MeColinYouWho 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Islam is not a race.

    • @syedhameedullahshah2221
      @syedhameedullahshah2221 ปีที่แล้ว

      How do you view white Muslims. You may feel less racist towards them

    • @MeColinYouWho
      @MeColinYouWho ปีที่แล้ว

      Islam is a religion, not a race.@@syedhameedullahshah2221

    • @syedhameedullahshah2221
      @syedhameedullahshah2221 ปีที่แล้ว

      Islam like Judaism is composed of races you do not like