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In reply to the discussion: After Paris attacks, watch out for massive Muslim hate everywhere. [View all]MellowDem
(5,018 posts)Bigoted, hateful, misogynistic, homophobic, genocidal religion. It's all laid out quite clearly in the Koran and hadiths.
Islam is a problem. Christianity is too, but Christianity has been utterly neutered by secularism, there are no more "Christian" governments. Not so for Islam, so you combine a religion with the power and institutions of government, and you get very powerful, wealthy extremist groups that can fund terrorism and genocide across the globe.
If this turns out to have been based on some strain of Islamic thought, it is yet another opportunity to criticize those parts of Islam that push hatred and violence, and even the religion as a whole for even allowing such hateful parts to be part of the overall ideology. Just like we would with any other ideology.
Religion is extremely privileged in our society. You can identify with explicitly hateful, bigoted religions in our society and expect others to give you the benefit of the doubt that you choose not to follow those explicitly hateful parts of the texts you claim to follow. That privilege keeps honest criticism of religion from being allowed, criticism any secular ideology with similar tenets would surely face.