bot bot

2y

Salafi extremism is a disease for world peace. If you teach your kids to be a slave to some high power and must protect that higher power at any means then your kid going to grow up as the biggest a****** to society with no awareness to human life or any social skills. This is a purposefully brainwashing created by a toxic generation to make you mentally ill.

Pedro

2y

F*** Faux News, but I'm watching a local CBS broadcast and they mentioned that the Iran dude had a bounty on him. Seems like something to mention about him

Grenouille

2y

The novel in question is called The Satanic Verses.

Context is: The Prophet Muhammad went around Mecca at the time spreading the verse of the new religion (Islam) in the stead of the current idolatry worshipping.

Controversy: it relates to an excerpt from Rushdie’s novel which retells of a time where the Prophet Muhammad believes he is told by the angel Gabriel that it is okay for people to worship Islam and the idolatry that is happening when in actual fact it is the Devil telling him these things — hence Satanic Verses.

This story is apocryphal — Muslim scholars deny this ever happening — so it is essence considered blasphemous. The novel is also alleged to paint the Prophet Muhammad in a bad light, which further stokes controversy in the Muslim world.

At the time, many Muslim scholars and politicians alike requested Rushdie to renounce the novel but he never did. He basically gave a “sorry not sorry” apology and kind of moved on. However, the book was banned in both India and Pakistan for those reasons above.

It’s a classic case of “we should have freedom of speech don’t bow to violence” vs “we should not be actively offending people to cause problems”

Fries

2y

If you're talking about John Bolton there's a LOT of reasons people all across the world would be mad at him, dude's the hawk to end all hawks

Pedro

2y

Rushdie

Okay Yeah

2y

You don’t get it lol

You’re presupposing “this” world has more value to them than the other, which is eternal.

Okay Yeah

2y

“we should not be actively offending people to cause problems” is a really generous way of putting it

no other offended religious group behaves this violently as result of people mocking their ideas in modern times

babylon sherm

2y

They said he lost at least one eye 🤢

Kako

2y

They still going after this man after all these years

These salafis really crazy

necromancer

2y

I mean… they do though, there’s extremist tendencies in every religion

Roe v. Wade just got shut down and it took a militant anti-abortion movement that bombed clinics and the 1996 Olympics and sniped doctors (largely a Christian nationalist coalition comprised of far-right Baptists and Catholics)

Hindu nationalists are in power in India

Buddhist extremists aided genocide in Rohingya against Muslims

I hate when people try to pin s*** like this on the entirety of Islam, because you know damn well Americans wouldn’t call every Catholic or Protestant an abortion clinic bomber, or every Jew a Zionist

Religions are vast metaphysical belief systems with various sects/tendencies that range in various places ideologically

If this is an atheist who posted this, I am also an atheist as well, but I do not engage in such vulgar reductionism when it comes to issues like this.

This obfuscation is largely done for majority groups (Americans who are culturally brought up in Christian tradition) to punch down on religious minorities, in the name of “defending liberal values” while simultaneously undermining religious plurality

necromancer

2y

I mean… they do though, there’s extremist tendencies in every religion

Roe v. Wade just got shut down and it took a militant anti-abortion movement that bombed clinics and the 1996 Olympics and sniped doctors (largely a Christian nationalist coalition comprised of far-right Baptists and Catholics)

Hindu nationalists are in power in India

Buddhist extremists aided genocide in Rohingya against Muslims

I hate when people try to pin s*** like this on the entirety of Islam, because you know damn well Americans wouldn’t call every Catholic or Protestant an abortion clinic bomber, or every Jew a Zionist

Religions are vast metaphysical belief systems with various sects/tendencies that range in various places ideologically

If this is an atheist who posted this, I am also an atheist as well, but I do not engage in such vulgar reductionism when it comes to issues like this.

This obfuscation is largely done for majority groups (Americans who are culturally brought up in Christian tradition) to punch down on religious minorities, in the name of “defending liberal values” while simultaneously undermining religious plurality

coltrup

2y

None of the things you brought up are really comparable to this situation in terms of its utter absurdity and incoherence.

There's a picture of a slideshow from a biology lecture currently making the rounds in right wing circles, where a slide compares a fetus to cancer cells. Maybe a little crude and unprofessional, but ultimately a harmless tangent that doesn't really reflect the point of the lecturer.

Now imagine if anti-abortion extremists waged a 40 year long campaign involving mass protests, assassinations, a multi-million dollar bounty, and a mass killing or two for good measure. All over this one lecture.

bot bot

2y

Salafi extremism is a disease for world peace. If you teach your kids to be a slave to some high power and must protect that higher power at any means then your kid going to grow up as the biggest a****** to society with no awareness to human life or any social skills. This is a purposefully brainwashing created by a toxic generation to make you mentally ill.

necromancer

2y

I mean… they do though, there’s extremist tendencies in every religion

Roe v. Wade just got shut down and it took a militant anti-abortion movement that bombed clinics and the 1996 Olympics and sniped doctors (largely a Christian nationalist coalition comprised of far-right Baptists and Catholics)

Hindu nationalists are in power in India

Buddhist extremists aided genocide in Rohingya against Muslims

I hate when people try to pin s*** like this on the entirety of Islam, because you know damn well Americans wouldn’t call every Catholic or Protestant an abortion clinic bomber, or every Jew a Zionist

Religions are vast metaphysical belief systems with various sects/tendencies that range in various places ideologically

If this is an atheist who posted this, I am also an atheist as well, but I do not engage in such vulgar reductionism when it comes to issues like this.

This obfuscation is largely done for majority groups (Americans who are culturally brought up in Christian tradition) to punch down on religious minorities, in the name of “defending liberal values” while simultaneously undermining religious plurality

SIGH

2y

haha I didn’t know he had that many I was talking about Padma