Attacking religious groups is perfectly fine, not bigoted and not comparable to bashing based on race, gender or sexual orientation. That's because religion is a chosen trait that one decides for themselves, unlike the other traits. Its more comparable to bashing and attacking members of a political party.
Um, no?
Um, yes? One can not change their race or sexual orientation. One can change their religion and political party.
Religion correlates heavily with culture and heritage, and is a deeply personal aspect of one's identity that implies a connection with spirituality, family, culture, and tradition. People throughout history have endured great suffering and even martyred themselves for faith. Just because it isn't an immutable factor, doesn't mean it's a random label that everyone simply adopts as they please. People throughout history have endured great suffering and even martyred themselves for faith. Just because it isn't an immutable factor, doesn't mean it's a random label that everyone simply adopts as they please.
I think BRTD probably doesn't support killing people because of their faith. The problem, rather, is that he probably doesn't see how the relegation of religion to a "vulnerable" trait could lead to just that. Forced conversion has, in the past, been a way of expressing superiority over conquered cultures or some other manner of enforcing conformity with the standards of new rulers. All this aside, one would surely hope that he realizes the extent to which Islamophobia is tied up with race.
That said, he in the past has implied support for state-backed conversion for non-Christian immigrants.
State-backed? No.
And Islamophobia is not a form of racism. Muslims are a VERY diverse in terms of ethnicity religion, and many of those groups have significant non-Muslim members too.
The problem with saying "Islamophobia is not a form of racism" is that the people who are the most likely to be victims of anti-Muslim hate crimes (in North America, at least) are specifically Middle Eastern and South Asian people.
Even people who aren't Muslims (like Sikhs) are often victims of Islamophobic crimes because Islamophobia also involves a lot of racism.
This is a tragic example of this. 
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