It isn't racist to criticise a religion

Especially if large amounts of terrorism come from it.

There is no law against criticising religions - we abolished all the laws of blasphemy many years ago. So anyone can say what they like about any religion and most people are aware of this and accept it. The one exception is the muslims who react angrily to anything that breaches their own religious laws. Well if they don't like it they should go and live in a muslim country with sharia law.

But the muslims don't accept this and are trying to reinstate the blasphemy laws - but just for Islam. The way they're doing this is by their attempts to redefine the word Islamophobia. So an All Party Parliamentary Group of MPs decided to define Islamophobia: "Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that

targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness”. And this has been accepted by Labour and the Lib Dems - not the Tories though.

But you can see what the APPG committee (headed up by a muslim of course) have done. They've cleverly conflated islamophobia with race - and criticism of people on the basis of race most certainly IS illegal. So it opens the way for Islamophobia to be illegal - just like antisemitism. In fact the two words, Islamophobia and antisemitism, are often used together as if they're both examples of racism and therefore illegal. This means that statements like "Islam is incompatible with British culture or British values" get held up (by the likes of Baroness Warsi) as examples of islamophobia and therefore racism, when it's a perfectly valid criticism of the religion of Islam, which denies freedom of religion or freedom of speech for example. Warsi was calling for the dismissal of Tory MPs and councillors for saying this.

The problem is also with our badly thought out laws, where, in the case of religion, you cannot legally attack people for the beliefs of their religion. So you can't attack muslims for believing in, say, the inferiority of women. But you can attack the religion for preaching this doctrine. Which makes little sense to me. It's different for non-religious ideologies (such as Nazism) where you're perfectly entitled to lock up a very bad person simply for being a very bad person. But you can't lock up a muslim for believing that homosexuals should be executed. You can believe ANYTHING you like if it's part of your religion. Nonsensical. Religions are simply ideologies and if they're t odds with British law they should be illegal IMO.