On being labeled a racist

To begin with, this is my point of view obviously and as such I should be able to defend my views. If I can't defend my views then it is just nonsense based on nothing. Now even if I defend my views, there has to be counter view which will also be supported by counter arguments. I am always willing to listen to counter arguments. Those counter arguments give you time and opportunity to reflect. Also, as humans we are given a power to think and reason. As humans, we can be individuals with individual thoughts or adopt thoughts of others as ours if we agree with them based on our own experience.

 Now getting back to being labeled racist, am I racist, openly racist? The answer to this question will be no. I will explain. If one looks up a definition, you will find something along this line "a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another." Now does that make one with Inferiority complex (say like Uncle Tom) be racist? No, because Uncle Tom will believe that the oppressing race is superior to his own race. So here is another definition of a racist, a racist is "a person who believes in racism, the doctrine that one's own racial group is superior or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others." So am I racist based on this? I am not Uncle Tom and I don't believe any one race is better as a race than another. On the second definition, do I think Indians are better as race than any other race on this planet? No. I don't believe that is the case.

 Here is where I have been labeled racist. Perhaps because I called Arabs as scum. Also, according to FB friend, my posts are openly racist and anti-Muslims. Are Arabs scum? Well, I shouldn’t say all of them are, but the one treating immigrant labor as human slaves, those ones are scum. The one who are Arabs and are not bothered by the treatment that is meted out to immigrant labor, they are also scum. The one that are quiet on this whole issue, they are scum also. Nothing to do with their race being inferior but everything to do with them being cruel to fellow human beings who don't happen to be Arabs. Here is link to the article . The article is about Qatar's bid to host World cup and to create all the venues for the games, employing immigrant labor force to construct. Now anyone who is familiar with various Arab nation’s treatment of immigrant labor, they know the treatment is pretty bad (Amazingly, Libya and Iraq were two Arab nations that treated their immigrant labor force with some dignity). The laborer's passport is confiscated upon their arrival, they are forced to share living space in the worst conditions, his/her wages are kept for months, and medical treatment is not provided most of the times. Now in this case, Arabs are total scum. No apologies. This settlement (mentioned in the article) happened only because of the pressure was built on FIFA due to things (treatment of laborers) that came out in open and Arab Shiekhs had to take an action. Here is youtube video of Guardian documentary . Again, am I racist? I personally don't think that my race is better than Arabs, but I will say this if Arabs can't respect basic human rights of immigrants, then they are scum.

 Second point of my offended FB friend was that I am anti-Muslim. I am against ideology of hate. A religion truly is nothing more than ideology and that is more so with middle east based religions. If hate is permeating from an ideology that is labeled as religion by its followers, do I have to respect the feeling of its followers? The desert death cults are nothing but cancer to humanity. I will explain it this way. Nazis had this ideology that they are superior because they are Aryan. Everyone else is just beneath Aryans. Now Nazism was an ideology. An ideology can be argued for or against. Never is ideology protected because you will offend the followers. That is a right, mostly given, in United States. Other countries, the citizen’s rights are curbed when it comes to freedom of expression. Now Islam and Christianity, to a non-believer, is just an ideology. An ideology, like Nazism, promotes this belief that the believers are better than the non-believers. Also, these ideologies require their believers to take ideas presented on faith (blindly without question). Islam is, particularly, cruel to non-believer (kuffrs). History is filled with their cruelty towards non-believers. The religion works by threatening anyone who questions it with death threats. Do, as Kuffr, I have any obligation to defend this junk? Now if followers also believe that they are better because they are faithful, do I need to be nice so I don't hurt their feelings? When I am called a bigot, and anti-muslim, do the faithful call their religion for holding bigoted view to be a junk that needs to be discarded? A religion and ideology that itself is bigoted towards non-believers, for that ideology I have no obligation to say anything nice about them. I am labeled anti-Muslim but truly I am against the belief system that has supremacist ideas at its core. I am against the ideology and the believers and not against individuals. I don't treat people based on their beliefs but I do question and ridicule their belief. No one in their right mind will expect Jews to defend Nazis, but I am expected to be nice and to have no problem with a belief system that is equally bigoted when it comes to non-believers. When I am supposed to be a kuffr according to their books, I am the one who should act like a Dhimmi (Uncle Tom) and be nice.

 I left this person's comment on my Facebook. I didn't delete. I didn’t delete because even though I am a bigot against bigoted ideology, I am always open to criticism. A threat of un-friend from a friend never comes because they are willing to listen and argue. I don't need threats and I don't need a sermon about love and hate. I don't hate anyone based on skin, race, or even religion, but I do ridicule people who follow a religion that is expansionist in nature and stupid in content. I am against religion that divide people based same yolk theory. When you label non-believers as hell bound unless they believe the same fantasy as yourself, I don’t have to be respectful to your beliefs. Forcing a Lord of the ring fan to become an exclusive fan of Harry Porter is what “only true religion” is asking from non-believers. I find the whole thing silly as I hate most of the religions equally. Also, to end, and regarding my Facebook friend un-friending – shoot and scoot is hallmark of a coward. Please stay around and argue your point. Don’t label someone a racist and then run away. Tweet