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Wanted to make a note of this, but decided to keep my mouth shut.

A Muslim couple find the vaccine for Covid-19 - https://bit.ly/33Ph2IV

It is surprising how the contemporary media notes accomplishments of Muslims by their faith, instead of nationality as would be the usual case, as though being a Muslim makes a person underprivileged or intellectually challenged in some way which makes their accomplishments more notable.

If you go back far enough in time and you'll see that all Muslims are descendants of non-Muslims. Why should they be any different from the descendants of their ancestors who did not adopt Islam?

"The soft bigotry of low expectations", not racism in this case. Muslims are not a race.



We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25317810 and marked it off topic.

Please don't take HN threads into religious flamewar.


I wonder if it's not something coming from the muslim world itself.

Modern nations is a western concept and has mostly been shaped by western colonisation. Identity in many part of the world is more defined by ethnicity, tribe, or religion, than by the nationality.


Muslims have been divided along ethnic and ideological lines as much as Christians or any other ethnic or religious groups.

Trying labelling an Iranian as an Arab to his face and see the outcome. (hint, it never ends well)




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