There's a social pandemic poisoning Europe: hatred of Muslims

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[–]roguecanine[S] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Funny how they call it anti-Muslim racism, while Muslim isn't a race.

[–]StillLessons 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Islam - as currently practiced in its most virulent form - is an ideology. That ideology is violent, and it is intolerant. Are there muslims who are peaceful and tolerant? Yes, but they are not the ones creating the cultural movement that is destroying western Europe. So we have to pay attention to the muslims who are most active and what they want and believe. As you say, they're not a race; they are the representatives of this ideology, which is expansionist and has structured mechanisms (such as fatwas) to call for violence. Muslim "activists" in Europe have no interest at all in adapting to their new environment, only in adapting that environment to their will.

I'm sorry to see the hatred of muslims growing, but it is a completely natural and expected counterbalance to a group of people within their "religion" who hate the systems of the countries they are choosing to move to to take advantage of the material benefits, and are regularly and violently expressing that hatred.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I don't mind them calling it a race so much.

Seeing as the punishment for leaving the religion is death.

So in a very real way many people have no choice but to be Muslim, just as others have no choice over their skin colour.

[–]roguecanine[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You can choose to become one, though. And you can choose to stop being one - at least in thoughts alone, without declaring it to your relatives/community. But yeah, I feel that it's rather hard for a muslim to overcome their upbringing and adopt more humane western values. I doubly respect those on /r/exmuslim for being able to do so.