Social justie whack-a-do defending Islam

[Mister Agenda]

Maybe if you rephrased it as Islamic fundamentalism? Most Muslims don't live in the Middle East and although plenty of those are misogynist too, plenty aren't...at least, not more so than the average male American.

Though I strongly doubt you are an actual Islamophobe. If I were doing a 'You might be an Islamophobe bit, the questions would go along these lines:

If you think Muslims should be prevented from immigrating in order to protect the Constitution.
If you think less than 2% of the population is going to institute Shariah law in America in the nesxt 20 years.
If you think the next war on Muslim extremists can be shortened to a week by dipping our bullets in pig blood and advertising it.
If you think so-called 'moderate Muslims' are practicing taqiyya.
If you think the president is secretly a Muslim.
If you think Islam is not really a religion but a political system disguised as a religion.

I would be very surprised if any of that describes you, TaraJo.

The last one, kinda. I think Islam is a religious system that asks for a specific kind of government. I mean, the religious leader of Muslims, Mohammed, very specifically started an Islamic state and his followers have a habit of doing the same thing. Fortunately, the only place where there is a high enough percentage of Muslims for this to happen is in the middle east and some parts of Africa. I don't worry in the slightest that there's going to be Sharia law here in the US. Hell, I worry more about Jewish law being instituted in the US than I do Sharia law.

I think for the last one, I should have added '...and therefore should not be protected by the First Amendment'.

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There's a perfectly cromulent word for people like that: Islamists.

Is·la·mism/isˈläˌmizəm/
noun
Islamic militancy or fundamentalism.

There's a huge practical problem with this distinction. There is no way to differentiate based on appearance meaning you will only have a fraction of a second to ponder your new discovery prior to losing your head or transforming into flying mince. Until Muslims affect the change required to rid themselves of Islamists, they will simply have to deal with the fact that unfamiliar non-Muslims will necessarily regard them with a certain level of suspicion until ensured otherwise.

My apologies. I did not realize you are in central Iraq, which makes your attitude justifiable. It's a little different in the West, where behaving as though the typical Muslim one runs into on the street is at least 50% likely to be a jihadist is considered a bit unreasonable.

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The thing is Muslims who are heretics are more likely to lose their faith

Sounds like a good reason to support Islamic heresies that are not Islamist as a matter of policy.