(June 18, 2016 at 8:36 pm)madog Wrote:(June 18, 2016 at 8:24 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Madog, the relevance is that Islamophobics brushes all Muslims with the tar of the extremists.
The difference between Christianity and Islam is not particularly in deity, somewhat in doctrine, but mostly in the fact that Christianity has been defanged, while Islam hasn't. An Islamophobe who bases his feelings on scripture should rightly display the same bigotry against Christianity. An Islamophobe who bases his criticisms on actions should rightlly base his feelings on the actions of a small minority of Muslims.
As a very liberal person all my life I am horrified that we don't stand up for liberal Muslims.
I Talk about how wrong homophobia, sexism, etc, etc, is in the world, but some want to exclude Islam from the discussion, we are letting our fellow man down .....
The problems with Islam are the same as nearly every other religion, terrorism is a tiny part .... Why should a gay, female, etc, etc Muslim suffer from silence of the liberals when Islam is decades/centuries behind a lot of western religions?
Its as if liberalism has gone mad .... Protecting the theocracy and not the victims, which are by and large Muslims
I hear you. I hate broad-brushes. They are inherently unfair and taken to their logical conclusions lead to discrimination and even barbarity.
