On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 03:46:56PM +0000, David Gerard wrote:
On 18/02/2008, Raphael Wegmann raphael@psi.co.at wrote:
It is a source for an assertion that an Iranian cultural official considers the inclusion of the Muhammad cartoon images a desecrating, divisive and Islamophobic move.
i.e., it's a useful word to use against people who say something you don't like, and gets less meaningful with expanded use, e.g. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7237663.stm - a minister raising concern with health issues caused by inbreeding in the British Pakistani community (where first-cousin marriage is common) is told that noticing this issue "verges on Islamophobia." What?
"Minister warns of in-breeding risk for Christians" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/10/ninbreds210....
I guess Christians wouldn't be amused about that Telegraph headline either.
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