Atheism on the rise in the middle east

[dyresand]

There are actually some quite daring secular movements in the Middle East, people living under austere Islamism (mostly Muslims themselves) are the first victims of it and the most aggressively against it. Far more brave shit than most of us cowards in the West have done to combat growing extremism in the West.

The problem is that these secular movements are not just silenced by the Islamists with their usual threats and violence. They're also silenced and erased by the liberal cultural relativists in the West, this lot who defend the barbarism under "well this is their culture, respect it, don't provoke". It's not the culture many young people in the Middle East want, but we're not showing the social solidarity with them we should be showing most of the time. Not military or political intervention, I'm with you guys on that, it doesn't help, but at least some social solidarity and not defending and supporting these regimes we wouldn't ever want for ourselves.

exactly, those people trying to be politically correct all the time, and sometimes it's doing more harm than good.

I hate the way people criticize Bill maher and call him a bigot for speaking his own mind about Islam.

We need more people like Bill Maher. I find it fucking stupid with the double standard. 
Sam Harris and Bill Maher were speaking their mind on Islam and Here goes Ben Affleck with
his own brand of stupidity trying to defend Islam. What Sam Harris and Bill Maher were speaking the truth
on it and were unneededly blasted as bigots because they were speaking the truth. Islam and religion
in general is not helping the people of the middle east they are too uncivilized and Iran of all places do not
need t go nuclear because it would really fuck up everything.