I take issue with that "there's no compulsion in Islam" quote apologists love throwing around.
Many people are inducted into Islam as babies before they have a say in it, in countries where it is illegal to leave the religion. That is compulsion in Islam
Like the other Abrahamic faiths, there is a belief that non-believers will go to Jahannam (Hell). That is compulsion in Islam, really, if the alternative is something so horrible you'd feel no choice but to be part of it.
So I don't buy it.
Many people are inducted into Islam as babies before they have a say in it, in countries where it is illegal to leave the religion. That is compulsion in Islam
Like the other Abrahamic faiths, there is a belief that non-believers will go to Jahannam (Hell). That is compulsion in Islam, really, if the alternative is something so horrible you'd feel no choice but to be part of it.
So I don't buy it.
"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
