Morally, I've got every right to wear whatever football shirt I like, wherever I like. I've also got enough common sense to know it's not always a great idea to try it.
When people see my football shirt they know which team I support. They cannot assume I'm sexist, homophobic, support genital mutilation, killing of animals in bizarre ways and generally treat scientific reasoning as secondary to supernatural superstitions inherited from my ancestors. Some football fans are like that, some aren't - we don't generally swear allegiance to a book cobbled together centuries ago though so you can't assume anything.
I do support your right to wear whatever you like, and to believe whatever you believe regardless of what others may think, so long as it doesn't harm anyone else. However... the fact that I can't go into my local pub wearing my football shirt is not the fault of the local pub, it is 100% the fault of idiots who claim to follow the same sport as me.
There was a big demo in London the other day protesting against bombing ISIS. There were many others up and down the country. "Not in my name" was written on hundreds of placards.
Sorry to repeat myself but where are the thousands protesting against ISIS carrying "not in Islam's name" placards? Wouldn't that do a lot to defeat Islamophobia?
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