Thursday, November 25, 2010

On Racial Profiling

When did 'Muslim' become a race?

3 comments:

Gino said...

i asked "When?".

but anyway... if somebody expresses positive attitudes towards muslims, is that racism too?

W.B. Picklesworth said...

"Muslim" as racial group is nonsensical. One cannot use the term this way in any rational kind of way. So then the question becomes, "When did we start using doublespeak?" 1984 sounds about right.

kr said...

lots of Muslims in Portland are black not Semetic(?sp) (we have a lot of those too, but mostly African-heritage ones).

I'd say Muslims gained popular "race" status in America right around, oh .... 9/12. When they suddenly became "them" to non-Jewish Americans.