That islamophobia link only goes to a post about him defending Laci Green from death threats or something? You also know part of his college degree was based on the study of Islam? and that his job for six years before taking up writing full time was reviewing books about Islam for booklist magazine? Not that that necessarily means anything one way or another but I'm skeptical, is what I'm saying.
Okayyyyyy let’s see what we have here. The link that Ruby linked under “islamophobia” was the link about John Green defending Laci Green after she made a video entitled Islam is Sexist. I, being a Muslim female (yoooo), screamed throughout the entirety of the video and it was not a pretty sight ok. Now I’m not gonna get all religious on you here because that’s not what we’re talking about but think about it this way. John Green, as you clearly stated, has a college degree based on the study of Islam. Now, after studying Islam for your college degree, you have to have figured out that the way the media (including Laci Green’s video) portrays Islam as a sexist religion is completely false and quite frankly it gets on my nerves a lot. Now the fact that he (hopefully) knew that Islam is not a sexist religion and defended someone who made a video entitled “Islam is Sexist” is in fact islamophobia because he is defending someone that is strengthening the false ideas the media has created about Islam and sexism. ALSO LET’S TALK ABOUT AN ABUNDANCE OF KATHERINES. In his book, An Abundance of Katherines, John Green wrote a muslim character and quite frankly, he was one of the most prominent examples of misrepresentation of muslims in the media. The character throws around the word “kafir” a lot and I don’t think that John Green understands that that is a legitimate insult in Islamic Culture, not to be thrown around like the character in the book. Idk man I read the book a long time ago and had a really hard time finishing it because of that one word just ugh ugh ugh ugh. Yeah so just cause he studied islam or reviewed books based on Islam for 6 years, doesn’t make him exempt from being labled islamophobic. I hope this helped explain things. - Salmaface
