I suspect that may be intentional. After all, they "do not want innocent Muslims being victimised or abused". Just antagonised and scared. A muslim dating service advert (superficially) supports their claim.
Plus I read a theory somewhere that suggested a large portion of Islamophobic men may be so due to their repressed attraction to women in non-sexual Islamic dress and their inability to sexualise their fantasy encounters in their tiny little minds.
It all sounds stupidly Freudian to me (and rather misses the other major factors, not to mention putting the onus of 'fault' on the women for wearing clothes; typical chauvinist academics…), but if there's any truth in that, there'll probably be a lot more clickthroughs than you might expect.
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September 15th, 2009 - 16:15
I suspect that may be intentional. After all, they "do not want innocent Muslims being victimised or abused". Just antagonised and scared. A muslim dating service advert (superficially) supports their claim.
Plus I read a theory somewhere that suggested a large portion of Islamophobic men may be so due to their repressed attraction to women in non-sexual Islamic dress and their inability to sexualise their fantasy encounters in their tiny little minds.
It all sounds stupidly Freudian to me (and rather misses the other major factors, not to mention putting the onus of 'fault' on the women for wearing clothes; typical chauvinist academics…), but if there's any truth in that, there'll probably be a lot more clickthroughs than you might expect.