I Can Understand That A Lot Of Fellow Leftists Don’t Want Muslim Folks To Get Attacked For Simply Having

I can understand that a lot of fellow leftists don’t want muslim folks to get attacked for simply having their faith or wearing hijab, but apparently for most of them, it ended up being translated to “we’re not allowed to criticize islam as a religion.”

I wish we can separate attacks with criticism because the latter is very necessary. I can absolutely talk about how islam, like other abrahamic religions, can teach some very harmful things and become a tool for the justification of violence, without attacking people who happen to only hold some parts of the faith that doesn’t include the bigotry. (Or without attacking people in general)

it’s so isolating being an ex muslim, i left islam for my liberal values and trauma only for a lot of people on the left to coddle islam and defend it from any criticism while ex muslims are still being killed, tortured, honour killed by their own family, it was very disheartening to see that the side that says that they are “here” for the people who are suffering to constantly demonize ex muslims and their trauma and suffering and actively create a hostile environment against them and then they wonder why some ex muslims turn to the right, cause they listen to them even though they may know that they are probably nothing but a token they still will be there cause they think that the right hears their criticisms and suffering.

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sinful-skeptic

1 year ago

“Not to shade religious people but it’s kinda chilling how some folks praise Abraham for being willing to kill Isaac for God to prove his devotion. Like idk about y’all, but if God told me to kill my son i’d kinda be like maybe this isn’t the god for me.”

Religion prioritizes submission, devotion, obedience, blind faith, etc. so it’s obvious what that tale was trying to do. They’re telling the followers that they will be rewarded for putting their god above any other.

“You must submit, but you have to do it willingly (like Abraham), forced submission is the same as no submission.”

They’re portraying this behavior as something to be praised and something to strive for. Abrahamic religions only give the illusion of “choice”. The tale is used to keep the followers in line while making them think that they’re admirable and worthy of praise because they chose to submit.

"Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us, only sky

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Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion, too"

--- Excerpt from Imagine by John Lennon

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sinful-skeptic

3 years ago

I love how the bible basically implied that knowing “what’s right and what’s wrong” is apparently forbidden.

Which also reflects on how religious people who blindly follow their faith without questioning it, because questioning is said to be wrong.

Also because questioning it would mean people would leave once they realize all the morally wrong things being preached.

Thankfully, some people still stopped to question.

Questioning what you know shouldn’t be forbidden.

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sinful-skeptic

10 months ago

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sinful-skeptic

2 years ago

You cannot demonstrate any claim by referring to the claim. It’s nonsense.

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sinful-skeptic

9 months ago

I don’t know a single irl person who isn’t racist, ableist, homophobic, or fatphobic. That’s made even more depressing by the fact that I live in a christian community, aka people who are supposed to be loving and accepting of all

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sinful-skeptic

1 year ago

You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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