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In reply to the discussion: Dear Liberals: Being Critical of Islam Is Not Racism [View all]Marr
(20,317 posts)And I want people like yourself to stop shielding such systems of thought from much-needed criticism.
Islam is by any honest measure, misogynistic, anti-gay, and anti-intellectual. Apparently you're ok with that. I'm not, and I won't pretend it's all sunshine and rainbows just to avoid some name calling from the eager-to-be-offended.
You're so desperate to cast people as bigots that you're just completely ignoring the actual point-- not to mention the very real people who are hurt and marginalized by religious extremism. You scream 'Muslims are good people, too', even though no one is arguing otherwise. It's absurd.
I'm talking about belief systems here, and all belief systems are not the same. Islam can easily be interpreted to justify all sorts of violence and oppression-- and is being widely interpreted in such a way today. You could say the same of Christianity as recently as a couple hundred years ago, but it's largely been put in a box in the west by everything from the Enlightenment to the Civil Rights Movement. Islam has not been so defanged, and it's fundamentalist adherents enjoy much broader acceptance than their counterparts in the Christian world.