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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My point was that people fear the average person who works a common job raising a family but is also Muslim. There's definitely crazy religious zealots in Islam, but they are the minority of the ~1.5 Billion.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah individually religious people can be fairly benign. The fundamental problem is with religion.

Extremists are able to hide behind the guise of religion because non-extremists enable them. Because the only way for “moderate” religious people to oppose religious extremists is to admit that it’s all metaphorical bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you mean that the problem is with extremist, not with religious people. Also, people where I live do oppose them because being an asshole is generally against Islam. (I live in a Muslim majority region)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I meant oppose in the theological sense. Religious extremists are given legitimacy by religious moderates. (I live in a Christian majority region)