RE: Terrorism has no religion but religion brings terrorism. Islam is NOT peaceful.
December 24, 2015 at 8:25 pm
(This post was last modified: December 24, 2015 at 8:28 pm by Regina.)
4% seems very low tbh. I can see there being large percentages for political ideology terror, nationalist terror or gang-related terror, but I think to say "only 4% of terror attacks are religiously based" is really low. It's like taking all the Islamist terror and saying "it's not about Islam, therefore Islamic terror barely exists".
I also think Islamism goes deeper and more subtle than just the in-your-face terrorism. That a Muslim man (who would scream "Islamophobia" if we insulted Muhammad) can stand there and say "the virgin Mary is a whore who got knocked up" to my elderly Catholic grandmother, is a prime example of the entitlement and double-standards many people of this religion feel. A girl being pushed to wear the hijab is Islamism. Honour killings on Islamic grounds are Islamism. Sharia Courts are Islamism. Muslims getting more offended at a cartoon than murder is Islamism. Calling for anti-blasphemy laws under the guise of "hate crime laws" Is Islamism. Just because people aren't being shot en masse or blown up, that doesn't mean there isn't a creeping Islamist political movement. It's very real and I get tired of people who dislike it being brushed off as "right-wing", especially considering what they are opposing is actually what is very right-wing.
I also think Islamism goes deeper and more subtle than just the in-your-face terrorism. That a Muslim man (who would scream "Islamophobia" if we insulted Muhammad) can stand there and say "the virgin Mary is a whore who got knocked up" to my elderly Catholic grandmother, is a prime example of the entitlement and double-standards many people of this religion feel. A girl being pushed to wear the hijab is Islamism. Honour killings on Islamic grounds are Islamism. Sharia Courts are Islamism. Muslims getting more offended at a cartoon than murder is Islamism. Calling for anti-blasphemy laws under the guise of "hate crime laws" Is Islamism. Just because people aren't being shot en masse or blown up, that doesn't mean there isn't a creeping Islamist political movement. It's very real and I get tired of people who dislike it being brushed off as "right-wing", especially considering what they are opposing is actually what is very right-wing.
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