Many Liberals Defend Islam the Way Conservatives Defend Guns

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76. Do you really want answers?

Most (not all) Muslims are non-Caucasian and thus further up on the pecking order of "groups the ideologues on the left must support".

Most (not all) Muslims are poor and from poor countries, so again they are higher on that pecking order.

Religious privilege. If you think Santa exists you are nuts. If you think a SuperSanta created the world and also decides on prize or punishment on exactly the same basis as the guy in the red suit, we must respect your deeply held beliefs TM even if they come along with brutal misogyny and homophobia at best, and wholesale slaughter at worst.

A deep thread of white rich guilt that means any country or group that ever came off worst against rich white people, even if they had previously had a massive empire for centuries, including over rich white people, is only fucked up, and gets a permanent get out of jail free card, because the rich white countries did it to them. No amount of aid, support, trade, peace or anything else can ever make it not the rich white countries fault even after centuries.