Religions and race

Race relations act makes some forms of discrimination on the basis of religion illegal. Technically it may not be racism, but by the spirit of the law it is the same thing.
 
Religion often defines someones culture and who they are as a person which contributes to their racial makeup. Race cannot be biologically definable, it's a social concept. Hence most of the time when showing hatred towards people belonging to a certain religion, you are being racist towards a category of people who share similar social characteristics.

All you have to do is read up on many genetics papers to realise that there are no distinctions.

What annoys me is ignorance. End thread.
 
G-MAN2004 said:
Is it only me, or does it really annoy you when someone is speaking badly of a religion (let's say Islam), and some idiot will pass comment on it being racist?

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Yup, annoys the hell out of me. Both are wrong but Islam (for example) is not a race.
 
So what happens when someone discriminates against Jewish people? They are an example of race, religion and culture all mixed into one are they not? (Hence the word antisemitism).
 
gurdas said:
Religion often defines someones culture and who they are as a person which contributes to their racial makeup. Race cannot be biologically definable, it's a social concept. Hence most of the time when showing hatred towards people belonging to a certain religion, you are being racist towards a category of people who share similar social characteristics.

All you have to do is read up on many genetics papers to realise that there are no distinctions.

What annoys me is ignorance. End thread.
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Exactly. You seldom hear "Those Christians should go back home" from, for example, an atheist raging about how much they hate the Christian RELIGION.

Take Islam for example. There is a predominant race which follows this religion, and when people start saying things like "THESE MUSLIMS SHOULD GO BACK HOME" it is going to be assumed racist because you've stopped hating a religion and have started hating the people that are part of it.
 
Hades said:
Judaism is not a race.
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I'm quite aware of that. That wasn't what I was asking.

Some Jews describe themselves as a race and apparently there are some atheist Jews in the world. It just sounds like there is no clear distinction.

"Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism; also known as Judeophobia) is prejudice against or hostility towards Jews, often rooted in hatred of their ethnic background, culture, or religion.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism
 
Chimerical said:
I'm quite aware of that. That wasn't what I was asking.

Some Jews describe themselves as a race and apparently there are some atheist Jews in the world. It just sounds like there is no clear distinction.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism
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Well, actually there could be a point in what they say. If I understand correctly, a Jew is a Jew if their mother was a Jew (someone please correct me if I'm talking pap!). Now, while DNA changes between generations, Mitochondrial DNA follows the mothers line.

So, contrary to my first post, maybe this is the exception to some small degree?
 
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