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I don't think any of you understand what the word 'racism' means (half of you can't even spell it...) Racism is the discrimination or abuse of people from another race. Race itself can simply be defined by differing genetics (eg, slavic peoples look different from Chinese peoples). Muslims are followers of the Islamic Religion - the religion named Islam. As far as I am aware anybody from any race with any type of genetics can be a muslim. The people out there who are claiming that criticising Islam or Muslims are racists are basically saying that all muslims are from the middle eastern areas and have brown skin and black hair - and that no muslims are white or any other colour. Therefore, they are sterotyping that all muslims share similar genitics and look similar - that in my book is racist. Also, just because the majority of muslims do share similar genetics, this does not mean that you can change the definition of racism to suit your arguement. Many black and white people are known to be followers of Christianity, however, any critism of Christians as a whole is never seen as racist. Research what racism means, simply thinking it is just a white person insulting a black person, is both ignorant and stereotypical (and is usually what most white people define as racism). Islam is a religion not a race, if you think any differently then you may as well say that being a black person is being part of the black religion. I think Geert Wilders rising popularity is helped by the fact that his opponents simply think that by calling him and his supporters racist just because they don't agree with a religion and left wing politics, they are going to magically dissapear. For a start they know that they are not racist , and that they will continue to support Mr Wilders because he seems to be the only politician at the moment in the netherlands who is addressing the issue of Islam, an issue which many people are aware of, but many politicans are simply looking away from.