Brainstorm

[Excited Penguin]

No, it is not. When we are talking about Muslims we are talking about grown men who have chosen to follow a certain set of ideas. That particular set of ideas and their reputation as a source of violence in today's world is what scares me. Fuck them and fuck their backwards ideas. If they want acceptance from me, they should have better ideas.


You would think the same about Nazis.

When we're talking about Muslims, we're talking about a much more diverse population than Nazis. For instance, 20% of Muslims live in the Middle East and North Africa, yet we characterize Islam by what's happening in the Middle East (which includes the West being responsible for the deaths of 4 million of them since 1990). 22% of Christians live in Africa, 70% live in Africa, Asia, and South America combined...yet we tend to characterize Christianity by what we see in North America and Europe. The common perspective is skewed.

In America, about 22% of Christian fundamentalists accept evolution, while about 45% of American Muslims do. I have more in common with American Muslims on average than I do with Christian fundamentalists, and I'm much less likely to be shot by an American Muslim than a Christian fundamentalist.

Distinctions matter.

That doesn't exactly address the part of my post talking about their adherence to a set of problematic ideas. 

But point taken if all of those numbers are accurate.