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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
But there is also a clear trend by progressives to deny that actions explicitly stated to be motivated by doctrines in Islam are actually motivated by them. Which is why the President of the USA feels that in order to not offend people he needs to say that suicide bombings have nothing to do with Islam.
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Well I think that comes down to a matter of personal autonomy. You can criticize Islam for the scripture, ideology, whatever, but it still comes down to personal choice. It's not Islam itself that is causing suicide bombings. It's #######s who are choosing to follow a literal interpretation of it. I think progressives tend to get their backs up when the argument reduced to the idea that violence is something that a majority of Muslims are capable of or prone to, without considering the social and political contexts that go along with the religious factors.
I'd say the same thing about Christians. Islam and Christianity are both generally terrible, patriarchal, outdated, and vile to me, but they're just beliefs. They don't cause anyone to do anything. If someone is indoctrinated with scripture to the point that they're willing to commit a violent act, that falls on those doing the indoctrinating and those committing the violence, not on the scripture or the religious abstract. I don't blame Christianity for the ####ty things that Christians do. I blame the Catholic Church as an institution for the egregious acts they've committed and continue to do so, but Catholicism itself isn't to blame.