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In your mind, are religious bigotry and racism the same thing? [Spirituality & Religion]

I ask because of the Muslim mosque shooting in New Zealand. I saw one SW member respond to a question about it, who referred to it as racism.

To my knowledge, there are only a few religions on earth, notably the Jewish religion, the Shinto religion, and perhaps the Hindu religion which are composed entirely of one race. Judaism counts descent from the mother as a qualifier for their religion, but there have been some notable exceptions and conversions, like that of Ivanka Trump and that of Sammy Davis Jr.

Is it not more accurate to refer to blind hatreds of the religious sort as religious bigotry?

Your thoughts?
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Race is one way we make people "other". This is why Muslims are called "sand niggers". It's a way of making them fully other and less.

But religion is also a way of generalizing ethnicity. If I tell people I came up with Arabs they presume I'm Muslim. No, there are Arab Christians and Jews.

Anyone from a broad patch of North Africa through Pakistan is just going to be presumed a Muslim. Even though the area contains a whole bunch of religious group and the one we all share in common-- non-practicing.