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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
In Canada and the USA, I think you're probably right, though no one as far as I'm aware has done the leg work to confirm that. But in Western Europe, there's reason to think that this isn't the case for a large segment of the Muslim population, whether it's "most" or just a significant minority. And you really can't draw a false equivalence with Western religions - by which I assume you mean Christianity and Judaism?
https://www.icmunlimited.com/wp-cont...us-topline.pdf
You're going to have a hell of a time convincing me that half of British Christians or British Jews would answer a poll by saying that homosexuality should be illegal, or that gays shouldn't be allowed to be teachers, or that more of them will agree with the statement "wives should always obey their husbands" than disagree with it. These are cultural realities that need to be confronted and that obviously we don't want to see take root here among any segment of society, religious or otherwise. |
Closed the window and lost my post, so I'll be brief:
It's getting better!
In this poll, Christians sit around 50% saying homosexuality should be accepted by society. Sub-genres do significantly worse, especially evangelicals, mormons, and jehovahs witnesses.
The thing that always amuses me is we make these broad "we dont want to see take route here" statements, as though the Muslim boogeyman is coming, but we already have religions here that have a fairly high potential for regressive behavior. I mean, name one good thing about mormonism? I can name a list of bad things. We don't fear them at all... we normalise them and give them TV shows.
I'm not disagreeing with your point that the British poll has some sad figures, but you don't have to look outside Christianity or North America for a few comparably bad ideas, and we're mostly letting them truck right along.