The problem with Islam

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Every time people point out extremism in Islam, others say "it's not the majority". Bullshit. It is the majority. The religion teaches values that modern westerners otherwise scoff at.

Mainstream Islam preaches racism. Who here could ever date a Muslim without his/her family loathing it? How many Muslims would even think of dating a non-Muslim in the first place? Where are the Imams that preach acceptance and appreciation of good that people do regardless of where they come from? They're nearly non-existent.

Mainstream Islam preaches sexism. How many Imams preach that women can wear what they want? Where are the Imams preaching that women can do what they want with their lives similarly to men? They're nearly non-existent.

Contrast this to mainstream Protestantism, where the most important foundational distinction between it and every other monotheistic religion is that your relationship with your god is a personal experience. Emergent from this has come a religion that preaches peace and the golden rule. Emergent from this is a religion that loses so adeptly to secularism that it continually adopts secular narratives, so much so that for mainstream Protestant Christians, it's more important that a family member is a good person than that he is a believer, something unheard of in mainstream Islam.

In mainstream Islam, if you're not a believer, you're an other (*cough* apostate *cough*), whom the mainstream of believers implicitly condemn (and a significant proportion explicitly condemn). The religion is fucking stone age. Modern secularists adore bending Christianity over the barrel for every meager indiscretion it has. We'd whip its adherents if we got the slightest whiff of them mistreating anybody based on status. Mainstream Christianity would join us. But we turn the blindest of blind eyes to anything harmful propelled from the world of Islam. A majority of Muslims believe in oppression of women? Nevermind, what's that over there? A majority of Muslims think that their religion should be forced upon others? Nevermind, what's that over there? Islam has no Jesus figure? From which it could derive a message of peace like Protestantism has? But it does have a violent Mohammed as its central idol? Oh nevermind, what's that over there?

What would happen if the WBC started detonating cafes because somebody showed pictures of Jesus? Would the rest of the Christian world keep its mouth shut? No. Would the secular world run in fear? No. The Christian-secularist collective would rain fire upon the WBC, mounting heads on stakes to warn any that if they follow, they would meet a similar fate. Yet here we have the Muslim world saying mum's the word when innocents are slaughtered over pictures of their murderous, baby-rapist, slave-owning prophet. And we have the secular world hiding under its desks, only to peak its head out to yell at anybody who says any truthful thing about the most protected group in the modern world: Islam.