Does being antisemitic also refer to hating Muslims?

Question

I've heard people refer to the hatred of Islam as antisemitism (along with hatred of the Jews). But I was unsure if this was accurate. Thank you.

Answer 1

Just as a pineapple is not edible, streamlined doesn't mean surrounded by creeks, and a butterfly is not an aviated dairy produce, so too the word antisemite does not mean hatred of semites. Words frequently assume meanings that one would not expect from their derivation.



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Answer 2

No it does not. Wilhelm Marr the anti-Jewish writer of the 19 th century who created the word meant ONLY JEWS even though Arabs and other groups are also Semites

Answer 3

Muslims are not Semites. I think you mean Arabs, but not all Arabs are Muslim (many are Christian), and not all Muslims are Arab (think Persians, Pakistanis, Indonesians, etc.). Muslims and Arabs are not synonymous.



At any rate, regardless of the root word "Semite," anti-Semitism exclusively means hatred of Jews.



Someone who hates Muslims is an Islamophobe (at least this is the word I've seen most commonly).

Answer 4

This link may help. It defines Semetic.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic



This is a line from the article:



"The term "anti-Semitic" (or "anti-Semite"), owing to the circumstances of its coining, and as established by longstanding usage, refers exclusively to hostility or discrimination directed at Jews."



...This remains true, even though the word "Semite" and most uses of the word "Semitic" do not make specific reference to Jews, but speak much more broadly to any people whose native tongue is, or was historically, a member of the associated language family. "Anti-Semitic" was coined in 1879 by German journalist Wilhelm Marr in a pamphlet called Der Weg zum Siege des Germanenthums über das Judenthum ("The Way to Victory of Germanicism over Judaism").

Answer 5

If one is antisemitic,, (with the intent of hating Jews )

Can never hate Muslims, because Jews n Muslims are two different sides of a coin. Jews openly hate n kill Muslims in the name of terrorism

So being antisemite is a term broadly used to hate Jews n not Muslims

Answer 6

No, it means you hate people with a lisp that cannot pronounce symmetric.

Answer 7

a Semite, can be any akkadian, phoenician, hebrew or arab inhabitant



http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Semite#English