DCC wants to rename Herzog Park

Miniegg · 01-12-2025 02:27PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124033610#Comment_124033610

This is hilarious. You’re accusing me of saying that ALL Muslims are extremists, which I didn’t

No I didn't. I explained to you what Islamophobia was, which isn't just criticism of a religion by its very definition. Islamophia is a prejudice that targets Muslims as people. It is in no way different to antisemetism, and if you deplore one and downplay the other, you are a hypocrite.

It would be, if the objections were not antisemitic in origin. But it's actually about erasing Jewish history in Ireland, so that won't satisfy most of them at all.

This is a quote from you.

It is more horsesh*t to paint people's disgust at the ethnic cleansing operations in Gaza as some inherent, racist flaw in the Irish pshyche, rather than a response to what, as I said, NGOs and special committees are telling us is a genocide, not that we needed them to given all this death is being funneled onto our TV screen and phones every day.

Oh and by all means, baselessly equate this with the Limerick pogroms (which only proves prejudice in the people who did it 100 years ago), bring in Devalera aswell, and ignore that Irelands history is possibly unique in Europe in that (I don't believe) a single Jewish person has ever killed for their religion, and definitely not by the forces of the state, who in fact enshrined their protection constitutionally, which is also unique.

Of course, most Irish people protest Israel's actions in Gaza, as they feel some kindredness with the people there, or with their situation (which I'm sure you despise). We are also quite adept at seeing the ignorance and propoganda being pumped out to dehumanize them (such as, their religion tells them to beat their wives!). We had similar said about us afterall.

You say the disgust people feel about mass murder, ethnic cleansing and colonization is actually prejudice against the religion associated with the people killing them - and not the acts those people are committing. This is not supported anywhere in reality, or in our history. For some reason, you want people to stop talking about it, stop protesting it, and smear is the path you have chosen to do this.

Hand in hand with this, you try to downplay what Islamophobia is, try to legitimise it, make it a credible position to take. It is pathetic.