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Is a religious group a 'race' or isn't it? Is someone 'racist' if they publicly state their dislike of a religious group? An Australian tribunal has answered this question by ruling that Muslim is not a race, and as such, a person who vilifies them in public, an act which is currently illegal in Australia, would not have broken the law.
In 2016 Sonia Kruger 'called for an end to migration from Islamic countries' saying that she wanted people to feel safe when going out to celebrate Australia day. Sam Ekermawi, a Muslim, filed a complaint to the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal claiming the comments were racial vilification.
The tribunal was unable to conclude Muslims living in Australia "are a 'race' by reason of a common ethnic or ethno-religious origin" and dismissed the application. This is an important milestone in the legal and cultural development of the ocean-bound nation which is still attempting to balance the melting pot of cultures and people who have migrated to the country from all over the world. This ruling may be a key threshold for defining what the word 'race' actually means in the legal and social and cultural context and how laws will be interpreted in the future.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Arik on Sunday February 17 2019, @02:23AM
Mohammed sought to convert, but the Yemeni Rabbis laughed at him. A stripling, a ridiculous youth, son of a single mother, only able to act like a man inside his own tribe because his grandfather was still alive.
I wasn't there. Maybe they really tried. But it sounds to me more like they laughed him off and made him determined to humble them. Which he did. Jews in the Hijaz either converted or died. A few might have been permitted to flee alive, I'm not sure on that.
Semitic, btw, is a linguistic term. People of very different ancestry can share a language, and vice versa.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?