I continue to wonder why progressives are so protective of Islam

[Cleita]

281. I guess I met Muslim people long before it was fashionable to hate them.

They have their problems, especially their attitude toward women and LBGT like the other Abrahmaic religions of Judaism and Christianity. But because all these religions believe in the infallibility of their doctrine and we all know they are often in error because they are as fallible as the people who invented them, they become inflexible in certain regards.

I worked at a university in a department that had a majority of Middle Easterners working in it, most of them Muslim, but not all. I got to know the women who were not that oppressed, but did get used to the cultural quirks like the single girls being escorted to and from work by their brothers or another male relative. But the married women were not.

Then the neighborhood I was living in started becoming a Persian enclave and I got to know more Muslims. Again, there were cultural differences but basically a nice and hardworking people, who were very business oriented and interested in getting the American Dream for their children, if not themselves.

So I cannot join in the hate. Most Muslims are not interested in blowing up people any more than most Irish Catholics are. Yet, the Irish also have their extremists, known as the IRA, which were very active in doing awful things back when Maggie Thatcher was busy starving Irish rebels in prison

and perpetuating other abuses on the Irish people in N. Ireland. That was in the seventies.