You can say a culture is generally one thing without tarring everyone within said culture. There is dissent everywhere. In most Islamic countries (and increasingly in Europe) such dissent gets you in trouble. That's the reality.
I can meet you on saying that Muslim people are not (necessarily) ultraconservative (which I've thought and have been saying all along) but Islam as a political movement is. Yes, you can separate the two. If a person is Muslim, good for them I'm fine with that, I don't care for Islamism.
I can meet you on saying that Muslim people are not (necessarily) ultraconservative (which I've thought and have been saying all along) but Islam as a political movement is. Yes, you can separate the two. If a person is Muslim, good for them I'm fine with that, I don't care for Islamism.
"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
