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MellowDem

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7. I agree with Bill Maher wholeheartedly...
Sat Jun 18, 2016, 09:54 AM
Jun 2016

Thanks for the link.

I'm sick of the false equivalencies, and I'm really sick of people excusing the carnage Islam causes every fucking time by saying "but wha abut Christianity..." Well, it's shit too, believe me! But Islam helped inspire THIS attack, and Islam IS partially to blame as a result, and that should be talked about. And trying to distract from that is offensive as hell.

So many liberals are so provincial that they only think criticism of Islam can come from hypocritical Christians. But guess what? There are a lot of people that are consistentally calling out both, and they never have a reply to them.

And the majority of people identify with hateful belief systems, so of course they love any narrative that excuses these hateful belief systems wholesale and places blame on "lone wolf" individuals that "twisted" the religion. Because religion can never be bad or inspire bad things apparently.

It's transparent and shameful as fuck, defending their religious privilege for the luxury of not having to examine these belief systems with so much power.

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