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 Originally Posted by wufwugy
You're assuming all sorts of things and not responding to points I made.
To be more clear, I didn't say the things you think I said. I never dehumanized a 1/4th of the world. I never said they're rapists or whatever.
I have been trying to show how the mainstream of the religion itself gets a pass for being "moderate" while it is actually not. This doesn't mean that the average American Muslim is a rapist. But that has nothing to do with the mainstream teachings of global Islam. It teaches some pretty bigoted stuff. The funny thing is that the West was getting down with this idea (remember when everybody cared about Saudi women getting imprisoned for driving or some bullshit?), but now that's mostly forgotten. I don't know why it's forgotten, but my guess is that it's the baby splashing out with the bathwater when many in the West leap to the defense of "Islam" as a whole when confronted with the reality of Islamic terrorism. Apparently it's so unfathomable that a significant subgroup of Islam is hellbent on destruction of infidels that it must be true that the rest of the Islamic groups are a-okay about everything.
Mainstream Islam doesn't teach terrorism, but it does teach stuff way out of line of Western secular values. Indeed some of the mainstream Islamic teachings are remarkably similar to the teaching for terrorism (just not as explicitly so). Why are we not allowed to make this point anymore?
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