ISIS executes gay men by throwing them from a rooftop in Syria

[DirkGently]

9. Really, people here told you "all" Muslims are perfect?

Because normally, when people talk about rightwing bigotry vs. Muslims, it has to do with them using ISIS or whatever as evidence that "all" Muslims are suspect or that their religion is somehow inferior to another one, like Christianity, which is of course utter bullshit.

More likely, people were pointing out to you a common idiocy that actually does constitute racist rightwing bigotry, which is the myth of "outgroup homogeneity."

That's where someone suggests or implies that when people of a group outside their own do something bad -- like ISIS Muslims -- it says something about "all" of that group, like Muslims in the U.S., who as we know are not throwing gay people off rooftops, or at least certainly much less than Christians.

Those same people, weirdly, think that anecdotal evidence of bad behavior by their "own" group, like, say, the Christian Crusades, or the KKK, or the Army of God nutwads that are still trying to kill abortion doctors in the name of "Jesus," are just that -- anecdotes -- and therefore don't say anything about the larger group or "all of them" at all.

Hope this helps.