Callistemon21
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Islam is not a race. It is not racist to criticise a religion.
There is only one race - the human race.
"Racist" has a specific meaning which covers hatred of people belonging to a religious or national group. Presumably you don't think anti-semitism is racist. By that reasoning, you obviously think that doesn't exist either.
That has already been discussed and biologically yes, but sociologically there are different races.
If there is only one race there would be no need for Race Relations Acts and ergo no-one could claim to be the victim of racial discrimination.
From a scientific point of view, there really is only one race. It is impossible to divide the human race into separate races because there is a huge overlap in haploid groups, although it was tried in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Racist and racism are modern concepts, which have generally been accepted, to describe discrimination based on (usually) physical characteristics. There's a good explanation in Adam Rutherford's "How to argue with a racist".
In any case, that's a red herring. Discrimination does exist. Anti-semitism exists, as does Islamophobia (whatever anybody chooses to call it). Ironically, Palestinians are closer genetically to Jews whose ancestry is in the middle East and round the Mediterranean than those same Jews are to Jews who have immigrated to Israel from Eastern Europe. Evidence suggests they have relatively recent (in terms of human development) common ancestry.
