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Originally Posted by JimmytheT
"How dare this film depict the Prophet and say that Islam is not a religion of peace. We will teach you by commiting acts of murder and violence against your fellow nationals at your embassies." -All the members of the 'Religion of Peace' violently protesting around the world.
I have no patience for religious bullies and thugs like this. I do not accept any form of apologetics for this nonsense. These people want to dictate what we read, what we watch, what we wear, and who we have sex with. They axiomatically respond with violence whenever something or someone offends their religious sensibilities. This religion is--more than any other right now--a threat to humanity, civilized society, and all the values that we in the west hold dear.
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I read and hear this confusing method of thought quite often. On the one hand, "religious bullies" are condemned. "They", as you said, would be the ones "violently protesting" around the world right now. "They" would be the ones that respond with violence when someone "offends their religious sensibilities". Jihadists, radical Islamists, etc. This is all fair enough, and I doubt many would disagree (outside of those extremists, of course).
Then, from that sensible way of thinking, the jump is made to condemning the entire religion, and/or everyone that calls that religion theirs ("this religion is a threat to all humanity"). And, really, if you condemn the entire religion, you can't help but condemn all of its practitioners in the process, violent protesters or not. How can the ones that live their everyday lives by the tenets of this faith not themselves be a threat to our way of life if those very tenets by which they live are a threat to us?
Anyway, this is where I feel there's a bit of battle within the psyche of the one writing or talking. On the one hand, they realize a few thousand violent Muslims does not an entire population of Muslims make. Or, if they don't realize this, they want to be politically correct. Then, on the other hand, they respond viscerally, and xenophobically, to the violence and destruction, and blame the entire Islamic religion.
Watching people wrestle with their inner, latent Islamophobia is really quite fascinating . . .