9 tropes about Muslims that are a product of Islamophobia

Salmon Rushdie is a writer from India, who lives in England of Muslim background. In the late 80s, he wrote a book & had it published, titled The Satanic Verses, which apparently took a jab at Muhammad. Naturally, millions of Muslims from around the entire world were deeply offended, & burned copies of the book, whenever they could find them. But, what finally sealed the name Salmon Rushdie in the minds of most people was when the Ayatollah of Iran imposed a fatwa (bounty) on Rushdie's head, awarding millions of dollars on the person who would murder the man!!!! 

Rushdie was in hiding for a very long time after that.

Ironically, the Ayatollah died only a few months after imposing this fatwa, & Rushdie is still alive right down to this very day. That said, the fatwa that was placed upon him is still in place right down to this day (no doubt with interest on the reward for his life).

Speaking of your correct point that not all Arabs are Muslims, there are boxes most people put areas of civilization in. The Middle East is really the only area that is associated with Muslims. but of course that in no way means all Arabs are Muslim and that only Arabs are Muslims. It is just that it is much more common for Arabs to be Muslims, in part because for the ones who live in the Middle East it is dangerous for you not to be a Muslim.

Latino people, black people, East Asians and white people are Christianity, because that is the largest religion and was able to spread the fastest due to force and the control Europe had 2000 years ago and from then on. Jews are Israel and spread out here and there across the world but in more small doses. Buddhism is Indians and East Asians and Hinduism is India and East Asia. So every area and color of person is associated in general with some form of religion. Smart people know those are just generalities though.

The Japanese translator of Rushdie's (phone misspelled his name) book was killed, although it was not confirmed that he was by a Muslim.

web.archive.org/web/20110721021445/http://koenraadelst.voiceofdharma.com/articles/misc/rushdie.html

Well, all Muslims must pray and recite the Qur'an in Arabic, go to Saudi Arabia to do the Hajj and preferably a convert should adopt an Arab name. So while not all Muslims are Arabs, you cannot take the Arabic out of Islam.

You are an information machine for me today.

I hadn't heard of Shinto either.

From quick Google search "Shinto (Japanese: 神道, romanized: Shintō) is a religion which originated in Japan. ... Shinto is polytheistic and revolves around the kami ("gods" or "spirits"), supernatural entities believed to inhabit all things. The link between the kami and the natural world has led to Shinto being considered animistic and pantheistic."

Is that correct?

No. Certainly not to that extent. I am mostly only familiar with the Abrahamic religions. I am also familiar with Buddhism, Hinduism, Janism and Pantheism. The latter being the most useless version of God I have heard of. Then obviously scientology, the most obviously untrue "religion."

I was referring to the people that view the Universe as God. Or is that something else?

Yes, scientologists seem to be quite hardcore. I just mean that is one religion that is very young and can be traced much more accurately and just reeks of a con game.

Okay, now I see what you mean.

Never thought about it like that, but that makes a lot of sense. Birth and all that.

Well, it isn't uninteresting.