Quote Originally Posted by Wash DC Blue View Post
This really is the crux of my mindset with this.
I watched an interview between Jon Stewart who I think is fantastic and Salman Rushdie who I also think is fantastic.

Of course it’s nobody’s business what Salman Rushdie finds cathartic, he’s a brilliant mind.
This interview though irked me a bit as to how his attack was brought around to YouTube and other Social Media’s Algorithms brainwashing and was the same as a school shooter as opposed to what it was…a guy who confessed that he did it, because he was offended by The Satanic Verses.

To come back to your post, the vast majority of Muslims that I have been lucky enough to get to know have been lovely.
There was a poster on here a few years back, adz. He was super nice and I couldn’t imagine anybody on here wishing ill on him because of his faith (not that they would for anyone’s faith).

There does have to be a distinction between Muslims and Islam though.
It’s my belief that Muslims are the primary victims of Islam.

One of Salman’s greatest friends was Christopher Hitchings again somebody that I admired and disagreed with a lot.
As one of the primary atheists out there 20 odd years ango…even he could draw the distinction between Islam and other faiths.

I don’t want to beat a dead horse here, but I am honestly baffled as to why such a barbaric set of beliefs seem to go unopposed and put into the mix with other faiths (That are challenged regularly).

Later in the video, shows how F’ing stupid we have become regarding disagreements which is true for everybody in this polarized world that we find ourselves in.

Here’s the video if you are interested.
https://youtu.be/kjOLVFshZ0I?si=wTt2ORS7mZ-VFk99
Christianity's most punitive and controlling era has long gone. It still too much power and influence (and my personal opinion is that indoctrinating children with religion is a form of abuse) but most of us don't live in fear of criticising Christianity as we see fit. Most people can go about their day without any ado.

Islam is so much worse though. I have travelled through quite a number of countries where Islam is the major religion and it has a far stronger control over many of its adherents. However, it's difficult for well-known people to espouse such comments at they may either be attacked (a la Salman Rushdie) or be accused of racism.

Reigion is bunk, parochial, primitive, divisive, often fear-making and incredibly infantilising.

Believers of any current religion would have been adherents to Zeus, Freya, Shiva, Ra, Buddha, Ebisu, Itzamná, Sedna, Abu-Mehsu (or any one of tens of thousands of gods) had they been born of different parents in a different time and space.