RE: The religion of peace...?
January 8, 2015 at 1:10 pm
(This post was last modified: January 8, 2015 at 1:16 pm by Regina.)
[insert generic disclaimer here about how not all individual Muslims are bad and we shouldn't judge individuals]
Moving onto the actual religion as a whole however, I find this "Islam is a religion of peace" statement faux-liberals love throwing around to be totally absurd. We're talking about a religion that has been at war with every other major religion, in the last century alone. True, there's no smoke without fire, and there are two sides to every story. However, when the same pattern keeps appearing, over and over again, it becomes obvious that this religion (at least in it's most conservative form) is totally incompatible with and intolerant of any other culture it meets.
Think of it as that naughty school child. If every other child in the class has an issue with that child, more than likely that says more about them than it does the other children.
Moving onto the actual religion as a whole however, I find this "Islam is a religion of peace" statement faux-liberals love throwing around to be totally absurd. We're talking about a religion that has been at war with every other major religion, in the last century alone. True, there's no smoke without fire, and there are two sides to every story. However, when the same pattern keeps appearing, over and over again, it becomes obvious that this religion (at least in it's most conservative form) is totally incompatible with and intolerant of any other culture it meets.
Think of it as that naughty school child. If every other child in the class has an issue with that child, more than likely that says more about them than it does the other children.
"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
