Antisemitism
Antisemitism - hostility to, racism or prejudice against Semite ethnic groups.
What are Semite ethnic groups? All ethnic groups that originated in Som (in the Bible, the Old Testament - Sham, the son of Noah). Som is the Biblical reference to the land of today's northeast Syria to the southwest of the Sinai peninsula up to the Suez Canal in Egypt. All Semitic languages have common features (e.g. shared alphabet, shared worlds, etc.). Semitic ethnic groups nowadays include Arabs, Jews, Akkadians, and Phoenicians.
🤯 Mind Blower #1: Yes! You read it correctly, Arabs are Semitic too!
Antisemitism means anti-semitic. To be racist against semitic group. In the past, this term had referred to Jewish and Arabs alike. However, after Islamic Terror had got popular in the 20th and 21st century, the term of hating Jews and hating Arabs had split - hating Jews keeps the same, Antisemitism. And hating Arabs was excluded to a new term Islamophobia.
The fear of Muslims
Means - to be afraid of Muslim? Or that muslim are afraid of you? We couln't find a right answer for that question. We encorage you to find it out. What we are do certain is that if you are a Muslim or Arab (or both) - you feel fear of being targeted as a terrorist. Every time you walk into a checkpoint in border check of airport or other port - is a freaking nightmare.
As a non-Muslim, having an encounter with an adult fighting age (15-60yo.) Muslim man, dressed in traditional Arab clothes and holding a bag or a briefcase will put you on your toes. Also a Muslim woman with a head cover or even a full face cover 🥷 is intimidating. Why does she need to cover her face? What is she hiding?
Little people are aware of the reasons why Arabs dress like so. And even fewer people than that know that the origins of this dress code are not exclusive to Arabs. Jews had similar clothes. Also the Israelites, all of the 12 Hebrew tribes that the Jews - Judah tribe (Yehuda - in the Bible, The Old Testament)
Arab-Jews, also called The Jews of Arabia and Northern Africa, have traditional clothes, language, and culture that are similar and sometimes the same as Arab-Muslims.
🤯 Mind Blower #2: Yes. You read correctly again. There are Arab-Jews. Not all Jews are white or have been exiled to Europe in the past 2,000 years. Some of them (about half) had been exiled to Spain, and later on to Arabia and Northern Africa - go to Jew Hate to learn more. Not all Jews are white! There are non-white Jews, coloring from light to dark brown, and even black African-Jews - go to White Supremacy to learn more.