If you happen to be in the library at Simmons College in Boston and somebody sneezes, whatever you do, don’t say “God bless you.” That’s because the librarians believe that the phrase “God Bless You” can spark something worse than a microaggression. They fear it could spark an Islamophobic microaggression. That’s right, folks—saying “God Bless you” is considered a form of “Islamomisia.”
That bit of information is tucked inside the college’s Anti-Oppression Library Guide—an exhaustive collection of words and phrases that could trigger perpetually offended collegiate snowflakes. Islamomisia is a fairly new malady that until recently was known as Islamophobia. “In North America (and throughout much of the western world), people who follow Christianity have institutional power, therefore Islamomisia is a systematized discrimination or antagonism directed against Muslim people due to their religion or perceived religious, national or ethnic identity associated with Islam,” the document states. READ MORE