RE: Christianity and Islam, hand in hand extremism
August 8, 2015 at 10:38 am
(This post was last modified: August 8, 2015 at 10:50 am by Regina.)
Islam and Christianity are the exact same culture. If you look at the Christian theocracies of Medieval Europe, all of the exact same themes as modern Saudi Arabia and Iran occur; Patriarchal society with austere treatment of women, herecy and blasphemy laws with gory executions, persecution of gays and minority religions, a lifestyle that has to revolve entirely around the religion at all times, extreme sexual repression, it's all the exact same stuff. It's frighteningly similar.
That's why I can't deal when Christians talk about Islam like it is so much worse. It's only worse today. The modern human rights and liberal standards of the Western world do not come from Christianity (which some Christians love to tell you they do). They've formed over centuries of enlightenment and a gradual pealing back of the Christian Church's political power. What you see in the Middle East with Islam today is exactly what Christianity used to be in Europe, and what it would be again given political power.
And these Muslim apologists, the Non-Muslim Westerners who defend Islam at any costs, are un-doing those centuries of stripping away Christianity in Europe by giving Islam a foothold to take us back there.
That's why I can't deal when Christians talk about Islam like it is so much worse. It's only worse today. The modern human rights and liberal standards of the Western world do not come from Christianity (which some Christians love to tell you they do). They've formed over centuries of enlightenment and a gradual pealing back of the Christian Church's political power. What you see in the Middle East with Islam today is exactly what Christianity used to be in Europe, and what it would be again given political power.
And these Muslim apologists, the Non-Muslim Westerners who defend Islam at any costs, are un-doing those centuries of stripping away Christianity in Europe by giving Islam a foothold to take us back there.
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"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
