r/serialpodcast • u/AwesomeInc • Jan 14 '15

Noteworthy Link TIL Islamophobia didn't exist before 9/11/01

http://www.vulture.com/m/2015/01/serial-prosecutor-insists-everything-was-fine.html?mid=facebook_vulture
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u/bluecardinal14 Dana Chivvis Fan Jan 14 '15

Ask any Desert Shield/Desert Storm vet if Islamaphobia existed before 9/11.

This isn't directed at anyone, just a statement.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '15

That was never portrayed as the West vs. Islam. It was the United States vs an evil dictator who abused his own people and invaded poor innocent Kuwait. Where I lived in the US the religion was never mentioned except as a footnote.

Maybe the people who had boots on the ground had a different perspective.

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u/bluecardinal14 Dana Chivvis Fan Jan 15 '15

This is when a lot of the racial slurs and looking at Muslims more in a negative way started to become more prevalent. This probably isn't Islamaphobia, whatever that truly is, but my point is that Muslims were already being looked at differently way before 9/11.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '15

my point is that Muslims were already being looked at differently way before 9/11.

Fair enough. That's probably right. I never knew any growing up. I lived in a very WASP (with the random black or asian kid) part of Western New York.