Tell Karl his brother is dead wrote:Every religious text has bits in that say "kill outsiders, and if you don't, you'll go to hell." Every religion has been used to justify violence. You must be actually for-real very thick to think it's only Islam that has nutters.
Except I don't 'for-real' believe that it's only islam that has these nutters.
See this is the problem with this one religion in this very moment in time. You talk about islam, and some white dude who knows nothing (no offence staydad) about islam, will tell you how abhorrent you are for thinking no other religion has dirty texts like these. People like that will conveniently ignore what has been said, and respond to what they think was said, or what they think they heard or they will try to combat some perceived idea that was never said.
So any time we talk about islam, we have to hear everyone who wants to be seen as far way from racist, mention that christianity has these texts or some other religion, conveniently ignoring again that those texts in those religions directly influenced violence and those ways of thinking. If we talk about christianity, no one jumps on the bandwagon to say how islam is so bad with these texts. When we talk about violence against women (domestic abuse and misogyny in marriages and relationships), we don't try to sideline the issue by saying women are just as bad as men and that it's not only men who do it. Who walks into a womens domestic violence shelter and berates them for being around women only when not all men in the world are bad? In fact 99 percent of the men in this world are peaceful, yet look at most of the violent people doing crazy stuff, they're all men.
All a bunch of nonsense, fallacies and virtue signalling to show how not racist people are.
Try actually reading the quran, try not to be a white person asking a brown person "hey violence is bad, don't you agree?". Try to be a brown person who grows up around muslims, try being a brown person around 9/11 and your peaceful muslim friends think you're open to influence, try listening to them laugh about 9/11. Try being brown and not having muslims lie to your face about what islam is. If you're white, your view on islam is more likely warped because you believe the lies that islam followers spread in the face of a culture that demonises violence against women and gays.