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In reply to the discussion: Atheist Richard Dawkins attacks liberals who defend Islam's homophobia and misogyny [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)not that he is a liberal. Religion is often issued a pass by liberals and by DUers. If Francis said the things about Muslims that he says about LGBT, DU would never stop condemning him. But it's LGBT he attack so DU has many threads touting the wonders of Francis. Francis is the world's leading anti abortion activist and he is given a pass on that as well. You will notice a large lull in the 'We love the Pope so much' OP's after Colorado Springs. There should be such a lull.
Islam is also given lots of protection. DU is full of people who aggressively conflate criticism of a religion or a political practice with 'hating all Muslims'. When Saudi Arabia executes a gay person, that person was a Muslim. I criticize his execution and that is characterized as 'hate for all Muslims'. I'm not going to stop saying 'Don't kill artists, don't flog gay people' just because straight religious people think it is wrong to criticize the murder of these people.