RE: islam is dying out
October 19, 2015 at 5:04 pm
(This post was last modified: October 19, 2015 at 5:07 pm by Regina.)
I think most holy wars have been brought about by Christianity and Islam tbh. Part of why the world is so fucked up is because neither of these religions have a tolerant "live and let live" mentality about them. A core tenet of either faith is proselytism, and that has been carried out violently at many points throughout history. This is why I can't take anyone seriously who wants to talk about "tolerating Islam" or "tolerating Christianity". You give either of these religions an inch, they'll take a mile, and your head along with that mile.
You just don't seem to see this in other religions either. We haven't had East and South Asians blowing eachother up over whether Hinduism, Buddhism or Sikhism is the supreme religion. There doesn't appear to have been this "my way or to the gallows" culture within Pagan societies either. Any religious war will have at least one (and usually both) Christianity and Islam at the centre of it. In the last century alone, Islam has come into conflict with Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, itself, and although not a religion, atheism.
Islam is like a naughty school child. There's two sides to every story sure, but when that one child is always at the centre of the trouble, it says more about that one child than the rest of the class.
You just don't seem to see this in other religions either. We haven't had East and South Asians blowing eachother up over whether Hinduism, Buddhism or Sikhism is the supreme religion. There doesn't appear to have been this "my way or to the gallows" culture within Pagan societies either. Any religious war will have at least one (and usually both) Christianity and Islam at the centre of it. In the last century alone, Islam has come into conflict with Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, itself, and although not a religion, atheism.
Islam is like a naughty school child. There's two sides to every story sure, but when that one child is always at the centre of the trouble, it says more about that one child than the rest of the class.
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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
