Do people really not GET this ? !!! Leftie here , maybe I can give some insight . I think the problem is less your intentions and more the end results . I am sure that you , personally , don ' t believe all Muslims are terrorists or anything close to that and are more just concerned with refugees from Islamic nations esp given the issues Europe has faced lately there and that ' s not an unwarranted concern . The problem is , what you think is generally understood never seems to be stated . Some examples of why I personally think this sub is routinely racist against Islamic people are well upvoted posts implying that Muslims as a group behead people , Muslims as a group support suicide attacks , and Muslims are a violent people . None of these say Islamic nations , none say refugees from certain nations , none say cultures or even a faith . All tie the people of a religion directly to the violence . If you are lumping together all people of a common race or religion as though they all act the same , to the best of my knowledge , it is making a racist statement . You say that is not the intent , and that the understood reality is that you just mean the violent ones in those groups . But that is not what the posts say or imply . When Trump says all Muslims banned from entering instead of refugees from violent areas , or a joke I saw recently posted here with sounds like a Muslim as the punchline for some negative offense , it sounds like you are against all people of the faith itself . Regardless of intentions , that is the message being delivered . And that is a racist message . It doesn ' t need a disclaimer but thedonald would be much less racist if everyone would take the extra second to say something more accurate like potentially violent refugees from ISIS influenced nations instead of just jumping all the way out to Muslims . One sounds like a sweepingracist generalization , and the other sounds like a realistic concern . Hope that helps give more insight to the other side . I do think dialogue is the only way we ' ll make progress on this stuff .