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Originally Posted by Buster
The polling data on Muslim intolerance of LGBT communities is overwhelming in Islamic countries. Among Muslims in western countries, it is closer to 50/50.
This is a completely unacceptable situation.
So, I would hesitate to blame this crime on "extremism" as the environment of intolerance for gays in Muslim communities is mainstream, not extreme. This action would perhaps not be conducted by all Muslims, but the the community as a whole is certainly culpable on account of the environment of intolerance.
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Is America really all that much more advanced? Just last year there was a proposed "Sodomite Suppression Act" (which was struck down, obviously). But regardless, there are still people who live in the US who were attempting to make it legal to murder people for being gay. There are 300 million Americans, and a tiny number think it's okay to murder gay people (though I guess they at least realized they needed a legal way to do it first). There are a billion Muslims, and a tiny number think it's okay to murder gay people.
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Originally Posted by calgaryblood
Man it feels like I'm living in a dream world. The U.S just recently passed a law that was fought in court just to give homosexuals equal rights did they not? The United States government is coming around, lets now hope the citizens follow suit as their is still clearly 40% of Americans who don't agree homosexuals are equal. Sure they're not throwing them off roofs but there is still hatred in at least 100 million Americans toward gays.
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The US passed a law to allow gay people to marry, yes. However, gay people still aren't a protected class of people in many states--including Florida--when it comes to non-discriminatory practices regarding housing, employment, etc. For example--if one of the survivors of the Pulse shooting was outed, and their employer was anti-LGBT? He could be fired, the next day, and he would have absolutely no recourse, because in the state of Florida, it's legal to fire someone solely for being gay.
Within two days of spouting on social media how they were "behind the LGBT community and Orlando," Republicans in the House blocked a vote that would prevent LGBT discrimination by federal contractors.
The US might not be in the business of actively murdering people for being homosexual, but they're not concerned if said homosexuals have somewhere to live, a place to work, safety to go about their everyday lives, etc.
We're more advanced as a nation in that we don't actively advocate for the murder of them, but make no mistake, the anti-LGBT rhetoric in this country is still pretty potent.