It seems as if you interpreted my question as an attack on Islam. Is there something about what I said that caused me to come off that way?
I did see it as an attack, or at least, a looking-down-the-nose at those poor ignorant heathens. One part of my interpretation was the overwhelming amount of Islamophobia and general white man's burden-esque bullshit I see every day coming out of our government, our politicians (even the presidential candidate I've been giving both time and money too :( ), the mass media, and at least half the people I talk to individually on a daily basis. So given someone I don't know I do the math and say the probability is that any random person I encounter is more likely than not to have unfounded prejudices against Islam. The second part of my reading of your comment was that in your first comment to me, you didn't write the nuances contained in your second question. If you had added something of the form of "I'm curious how fasting from water works and how the religious laws deal with the risk of dehydration" that would have gone a long way towards making your question sound less like the stereotype of Enlightened Western Cultured Person Explaining to the Ignorant Heathen Why They Are Stupid. Finally, since you are commenting on Rachel's journal, I read your comment in the same somewhat harsh, supercilious tone I expect from certain alums in our social circle. (If you know tibbetts or plitwack, you will know exactly what I'm talking about).
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I did see it as an attack, or at least, a looking-down-the-nose at those poor ignorant heathens. One part of my interpretation was the overwhelming amount of Islamophobia and general white man's burden-esque bullshit I see every day coming out of our government, our politicians (even the presidential candidate I've been giving both time and money too :( ), the mass media, and at least half the people I talk to individually on a daily basis. So given someone I don't know I do the math and say the probability is that any random person I encounter is more likely than not to have unfounded prejudices against Islam. The second part of my reading of your comment was that in your first comment to me, you didn't write the nuances contained in your second question. If you had added something of the form of "I'm curious how fasting from water works and how the religious laws deal with the risk of dehydration" that would have gone a long way towards making your question sound less like the stereotype of Enlightened Western Cultured Person Explaining to the Ignorant Heathen Why They Are Stupid. Finally, since you are commenting on Rachel's journal, I read your comment in the same somewhat harsh, supercilious tone I expect from certain alums in our social circle. (If you know tibbetts or plitwack, you will know exactly what I'm talking about).