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nycbos

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1. Damn right
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 04:07 PM
Aug 2022

This will make many on the left uncomfortable because they are afraid of being called Islamaphobic but there is something about Islam that doesn't exist in other religions. The Iranian Ayatollah called for Rushdie to be murdered. In the UK British Muslims literally took to the street to call for Rushdie's death. This was in 1989. They still haven't gotten over a book that he wrote more than 30 years ago.

Every country where they execute gay people is a Muslim majority country. Every country where women get executed for adultery is a Muslim majority country.

It is not colonialist, imperialistic, or whatever other leftist buzz word you want to use to say western liberal society are superior to places like that. And I think most American Muslims would agree. I presume that many of them came here because they wanted to live in a place that offered more freedom than their country of origin.

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