Moral Panics: Research Log B

'Why I don't believe people who say they loathe Islam but not Muslims'
-Andrew Brown, The Guardian

1) "It's psychologically unnatural to claim that you hate an ideology without hating the people in whose lives it is expressed"

In today's society many people would be more than willing to admit they hate the Islamic belief system and ideologies especially due to how long this idea has been around. However, it would be much harder and more unlikely for people to admit their hatred to those who actually follow the Islamic religion. It is much more likely for people to hate the misrepresentation of Islam as opposed to actual Muslims.  

2) "50 or 60 years ago racial prejudice was an entirely natural part of English life. In order to change that, it was necessary to mark it as a uniquely dreadful and disfiguring condition: racism became a kind of moral leprosy."