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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Hate is hate, to be sure, and hating someone for being Muslim is bigotry, but of course there is a difference between race and religion. One is a belief system. It's not inherent to who you are. I can't criticize someone's skin colour. I can, and happily will, criticize their religious views.
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While it might seem on the surface that religious affiliation is up for criticism since it's a system of thinking which is changeable and malleable (much more so than skin color obiviously), there is reason to believe that religious affiliation is so deeply entrenched in our family relations, social networks, national identity, and paradigm for viewing the world, that it isn't really fair to attack someone for the belief system they were raised in and still adhere to. It is incredibly difficult to break away from religion, especially if your family is devoutly religious rather than secular, which is why you don't see it happen on a large scale.
I'm as atheistic as it gets, but I try to allow for those who are religious to maintain their ideology as long as it doesn't contradict facts. It isn't really fair to do otherwise.