(February 18, 2016 at 8:28 am)Aoi Magi Wrote: Yes, but when a major religion starts getting used as a justification for crimes, we should speak out against both.
I was really hoping nobody would miss my point. But you managed to do just that.
I was trying to point out the difference between attacking ideas, and xenophobia. Ayaan Hirsi Ali lived it and still lives under threat of sexist men using the Quran that lead a man to murder her documentary friend for her exposing the sexism in the Quran.
The point is you can go after religiously justified cruelty without being a xenophobe. It is no different to me than Trump scaring the crap out of voters saying undocumented Mexicans import drug dealers and rapists. You can rightfully point out the verses in the Quran that justify cruelty, without using carpet bombing presumption of guilt. Just like gangs in Mexico do exist and smuggle drugs and even humans, still would not make it humane to presume the guilt of my Hispanic neighbors on both sides of me who have never caused me any problems, not noisy in the least, nor are they drug dealers or rapists.
You can go after bad ideas as you should, but my advice is to treat everyone as an individual first while rightfully doing that.
