• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    you are just nitpicking

    No I’m not, there is a difference, Islam fosters more extremists, Islam does not condone secular government. The Bible and Torah are bad too, but there are degrees, and there’s a reason more Christian countries don’t have death penalty than for any other religion.

    But mostly it’s the culture of Muslim countries that is backwards. It’s not religion alone, but the culture and religion go hand in hand.

    There can be zero doubt that Islam and Muslims foster way more extremists than other religions, when just burning a book can get you killed. Even in a democratic non Muslim country, What more evidence do you need?

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      2 months ago

      Again nitpicking;

      You are looking at the extreme ends of Muslim / Islam countries

      There are “democratic” countries that are not as extreme like Malaysia and Brunei or even Indonesia.

      Edited : out Singapore; see reply below for correction.

      To me it seems like you are just looking at Iran/Iraq and such when you mention that religion so it will most definitely look like that. I do agree at its current stage Islam is fostering a lot of extremist beliefs but there have been period with different leaders where things looked way progressive comparatively.

      You cannot judge something that is almost immemorial from a single point of view as they all go through periods of change.

      From my understanding in a world with 3 theocratic religion it has always been Judaism and Christianity vs Islam so of course you only hear and see bad and never the good when the overall big picture is messed up.

      I personally am in favor of destruction of all religion but I also understand why they exist.

      I am stating it again, try doing those same action in a state with a lot of Zionist believers or orthodox Christian’s and see what happens. I am not asking you to change your view but rather see it from an open prospective if you are going to try defending any religion at all.

      • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        The main religion in Singapore is Buddhism, second is no affiliation, third Christianity. And down at fourth with 15% you have Islam!
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore
        So you have one anecdotal example with Brunei.

        And I can counter with Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Jordan, Yemen, Somalia.

        Where AFAIK all these countries have problems with for instance so called honor killings. And death penalty for insulting the false prophet.
        As I mentioned it’s the culture and religion, but in extreme Islamic countries, the religion is preventing the cultures to progress.
        And of course there are places that are worse than others, maybe Brunei is not so bad, I don’t know much about that country.

        But if you look at Muslim countries they are only the 37th most muslim country:
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_by_country

        All the bad ones have way higher ratio of Muslims.

        But I’ve mentioned before, that not ALL Muslims are bad. But it remains the main force for promoting religious extremism and fanaticism. And it’s rare to see Muslims complain when other Muslims do horrendous acts, like killing for expressing your opinion by burning a book. And things that should be a complete non issue like the Mohammad drawings:

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy

        Or Salman Rushdie for writing a book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdie

        People who were threatened on their life by fucking official MUSLIM GOVERNMENTS!! With Iran even offering a high reward for the death of Salman Rushdie.
        How can you compare this to anything done in the name of Christianity today?

        I personally am in favor of destruction of all religion but I also understand why they exist.

        That we can agree on, religion in general is detrimental to both individuals and society. And they exist because of ignorance to explain common phenomena that weren’t understood in ancient times, and still aren’t today by a very large share of the global population.

        Still there are differences as to how harmful each religion is.

        • the_three_tomatoes@lemmy.world
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          4 days ago

          America has school shootings, would you deem it in the same light as Jordan which has honor killings? Both places seem to have unique problems arising from their different culture and environment.