And so what? So what if they're motivated by Islamophobia?
Then people like the friend you mentioned above are justified in seeing it as primarily a tribal act directed against scary foreigners, and not primarily about freedom of expression. It's not the biggest deal in the world (Islamophobia has much bigger consequences), but that doesn't make it laudable.
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Date: 2010-05-22 03:55 am (UTC)Then people like the friend you mentioned above are justified in seeing it as primarily a tribal act directed against scary foreigners, and not primarily about freedom of expression. It's not the biggest deal in the world (Islamophobia has much bigger consequences), but that doesn't make it laudable.