Saif [he/him]

no, but being black could be described as a “din” interestingly enough, which Islam describes itself as, as the English word “religion” and its connotations did not exist in classical Arabic. Would you like to learn things from an Islamic perspective, considering you “have never knowingly interacted with a muslim”?

it’s just a word guys stop imposing your rules on me i can say it whenever i want

i don’t know how many times i have to keep saying this - racial oppression develops culturally, meaning there could be no logic to it but it becomes racist anyway due to the usage by racists for that purpose. for example, a lot of slurs have literally no etymological meaning, such as the “G” word used against Asians. you are trying to make racism seem logical, when it isn’t and never has been.

because racists have turned it into racial oppression? i just said culture is a fickle thing and this is how racial slurs and racial oppression develops, just look at blackface.

sure, if that’s the tack you want to go on. now that we’ve established islam has been racialized, and that it’s extremely obvious that plastering drawings of Muhammad on the walls has been weaponized as form of racial oppression (again take 5 seconds to look at the discourse), can we agree it’s fucking racist to do it? and there’s precedence of course - culture is a fickle thing and anything can be turned into a slur with enough effort by racists, and we’re not even talking about a word, we’re talking about elaborately drawing something lmao.

race is a social construct and not a biological one, and if you spend 5 seconds looking at the Western discourse you will see that Muslims have undergone racialization. how have you missed this?

muslims are a race, and its racist to draw muhammad now, read the room my friend. this is the way of things. stop trying to conflate everything under the western conception of “religion” as if you can approach them all in the exact same way, you imperialist fuck. come to each one humbly with your head bowed, and attempt to learn something new about a different culture, for once in your fucking life.

so once again, “drawing Muhammad in your own home” is not the question at hand here, you accept this. now you need to accept that nobody gives a shit about questioning the “morality” of drawing Muhammad in a vacuum just as no leftist with half a brain thinks the literal letter structure of the n-word is morally evil on its own. we’re talking about cultural contexts. and just as it’s morally wrong to go out of your way to be racist towards black people, it’s morally wrong to go out of your way to be racist towards Muslims. and it takes a bizarre amount of effort in this context as well, i mean you are arguing for the right for people to make elaborate art just to be racist.

no one has ever said “don’t draw Muhammad in your own house”??? where the hell are you getting this from. nobody is asking you to not draw Muhammad in private, that’s absurd and irrelevant to the question. this whole discourse is about western reactionaries intentionally enflaming the situation by drawing Muhammad outwardly, usually in racist big-nosed depictions i might add.