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It's interesting, for sure. It's not Islamophobic to note the similarities between Islamic states, Islamic radicalism, and Islamic jihad and Republican law policies, right-wing nationalism, and fundamentalist Christian radicalism. There are many parallels between the Taliban and the US far-right.
It's easy to equate Islam with IS; Christians with Republicans; and Judaism with Israel, because the latter in each case is based in the former. When extremism appropriates symbology and weaponizes religion, it gets really hard to have conversations without slipping. And when, in particular, you have a community who faced an foe that appropriated a particular phrase as a battle cry before executing violence, it's a natural reaction to associate that phrase with The Enemy.
Is it islamophobic? For sure. Does it also convey an easily understandable equivalency between the worst elements of two extremist movemets? I think it does. Is it technically accurate ("Trump is great!")? Sure, it is. Were you also trolling, and therefore worthy of downvotes? Abso-fucking-lutely.
How is your comment islamophobic? You make fun of their religious saying but I don't see that as islamophobia, am I misunderstanding?
Everyone should make fun of all religions, they all suck
how is it funny that our current discourse is so permeable to islamophobia?