How do you deal with Islam?
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Holy shit that's a disturbing thread. This one might be worse:
This is Exhibit 1,001 for why abject relativism about cultures is a bankrupt theory.
Christopher Hitchens once said “Islamophobia” is a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
Child marriage is bad, but presenting it as some sort of Muslim phenomenon is grossly misleading.
Child marriages increase in Lebanon in pandemic – DW – 05/15/2021
Child protection campaigners say closed schools and rising poverty, along with the lack of a legal minimum age, are pushing more girls under 18 into marriage.
www.dw.com
Child marriage is bad, but presenting it as some sort of Muslim phenomenon is grossly misleading.
Child marriages increase in Lebanon in pandemic – DW – 05/15/2021
Child protection campaigners say closed schools and rising poverty, along with the lack of a legal minimum age, are pushing more girls under 18 into marriage.
Am I misreading the link you posted? As more Muslim immigrants have fled to Lebanon from Palestinian Territories and Syria, the % of underage girls being Wed is going up. Wouldn’t that correlate with it being a religious issue? Lebanon is becoming less Christian Arab iirc
Yes, you're misreading it. It's an issue among refugees. Correlation is not causation.
Twitter isn’t telling me how to feel. It’s enlightening people to the problems of Islam.
You're letting cherry-picked examples of the worst people paint your understanding of entire cultures. Twitter is most definitely telling you how to feel.
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Shrink the "culture" then, to compare things to. I also wouldn't say all Mormons favor polygamy and child marriage. But those sects that do are worse than those that do not.Child marriage is bad, but presenting it as some sort of Muslim phenomenon is grossly misleading.
Child marriages increase in Lebanon in pandemic – DW – 05/15/2021
Child protection campaigners say closed schools and rising poverty, along with the lack of a legal minimum age, are pushing more girls under 18 into marriage.
I agree not every Islamic culture is bad. Some more modernized (can you say Westernized? I don't know) versions have eliminated this practice, I am sure.
The fact that Lebanese television is airing the show exposing this stuff is instructive.
just as an fyi kody brown has officially abandoned polygamy for a monogamous marriage with robin. one of the more surprising events of 2023 as we look back on the year
I don't think anyone is claiming anyone is "blameless."
That article is quite slanted, telling one side of the story and leaving out quite a few salient details that rob the Israeli actions of their context.
The organization is clearly biased. And worse--Canadian. There are only three things to rely on Canadians for: comedic actors, curling, and hockey.
If you'd like to hear more of the context from the Israeli side, I recommend recent podcasts from Bari Weiss at Honestly, and Russ Roberts at Econtalk. Two I found very informative (although both are biased, too):
An Extraordinary Introduction to the Birth of Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (with Haviv Rettig Gur) - Econlib
Israeli journalist Haviv Rettig Gur takes us on a deep dive into the origins of Israel–how European Jew-hatred gave birth to Zionism and the founding of the Jewish state in 1948. He then turns to the rise of Palestinian terrorism and explains why the Palestinian experience and the Israeli...
www.econtalk.org
Yossi Klein Halevi on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict - Econlib
In 2018, author Yossi Klein Halevi wanted Palestinians to understand his story of how Israel came into existence. At the same time, he wanted Palestinians to tell him their personal and national stories, too, about the same land. The result was Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor, a candid...
www.econtalk.org
Lol you cannot be serious
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Middle East’s Jews, Muslims and Christians lived in relative peace for centuries until well into the 20th century
That is factually inaccurate.
Brawl involving pro-Palestinian activists at Detroit Dem holiday bash leaves partygoers bloodied, bruised and in ER
The melee left a black activist hospitalized with two black eyes and featured a 90-year-old former police commissioner hitting protestors with her cane.
nypost.com
It really is. You’ve convinced yourself Gazans — even the kids — don’t deserve to live because you’ve seen evidence (via tweets) that they are not humans.
I remember similar anti- Muslim sentiment in the US after 9/11, as if Afghani and Iraqi babies were training the hijackers.
Stupid then and stupid now.
I think how you answer the following question might determine in which camp you reside in the current culture wars:
Which group is more dangerous in the United States:
True White Supremecists
or
True Decolonizer/anti-"Whiteness" believers
I think most on both sides who can easily answer that question would also think it ridiculous to compare the two, because they think one is just an invented danger by the other political party.
Imagine being old Rudy’s fam at Xmas. Hon what time are we expecting rudy? You know bill and Joanne from work are stopping by too
Meh, I'd leave Hamas alone. At least they just come out and say they hate America. That makes them much more trustworthy than many Americans.
That dude has the most punchable face this side of Matt Painter.
Can we please send Rudy (formerly Rosa) to a Muslim country so zhe can let them know of the support for the Palestinian and Trans causes?
Damn son. I’ve learned. You just did it, you provided the definitive opinion on the Israel/ Palestine conflict. Complete with new information no one has ever read before.
You’ve enlightened us all.
I think we can solidly answer that question with data if we’re talking actual physical danger
You are being redirected...
www.adl.org
I’m not aware of any domestic anti-colonizer groups that are regularly killing people in the US but maybe I’m missing something. They seem like a younger more prone to property damage-type crowd.
I also don’t think everyone who is anti-colonizer is also anti-white. I’m an example.
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These people need a good old fashioned ass kicking.
I bet if we gave them jobs and were accepting of them that everything would be all better.
