Ok having had time to gather my thoughts on this, I really do have a problem with this "nothing to do with Islam" argument.
Of course it has everything to do with Islam, and you can't divorce it. People are products of the environment they were raised in. These people were raised in the religion, and until the day they wake up and realise they've been conned, they are products of the religion. In exactly the same way as an abused child will probably end up depressed and lacking confidence as a product of their abuse, any views and actions of these people are products of the fact that they were raised Muslim. They just can't take a commentary on what the religion has molded them into, so we have to gloss over it and say "oh no, it's not your religion" just to appease them.
Of course it has everything to do with Islam, and you can't divorce it. People are products of the environment they were raised in. These people were raised in the religion, and until the day they wake up and realise they've been conned, they are products of the religion. In exactly the same way as an abused child will probably end up depressed and lacking confidence as a product of their abuse, any views and actions of these people are products of the fact that they were raised Muslim. They just can't take a commentary on what the religion has molded them into, so we have to gloss over it and say "oh no, it's not your religion" just to appease them.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
