8bitagent » Sat Oct 01, 2016 4:02 am wrote:Islam and the treatment of women and gays has always been a weird elephant in the room, amongst progressives. The idea being, how can one make fun of Christianity and uphold feminist values, yet
support a religion that doesn't have the best track record for women's rights. But then you see how women and gays in so called "Christian" nations in Uganda, Russia, Jamaica, Senegal, ect are treated or
how blacks are treated in Israel. Culture and religion of all stripes, including in Buddhist Tibet and Burma/Myanmar have been used to subjegate people.
There's been a noticeably big influx of Arab Muslims in my little town, along with East Indian Hindus and Sikhs(I used to joke I was the only minority in this all white soccer mom Christian yuppy area)
but literally they are all really radiant happy family people from what I observe. Trump and the GOP's big scary warning of Arab immigrants spelling impending doom in America is just silly.
The heartbreaking flood of Muslim refugees into Europe is a different story, of course caused by the globalist/west's destabilization of Libya, Syria, and other Middle Eastern and North African nations.
It's been a massive artificial crisis that has unnaturally pushed millions of people from a different culture suddenly into Europe; not surprisingly giving fuel to the rise of the political far right.
It is true there has been a lot of sexual assaults reported to police by women allegedly stemming from Muslim migrants. Saying it doesn't make you anti Muslim anymore than saying ISIS is a genocidal cult. You also have a lot of French Jews in fear from Muslims hate crimes against them. But you also have a rise in anti Muslim hate crimes.
But the thing is...
I cant help but feel that the powers that be are trying to engineer a clash of civilization and race war. And if you want to talk about the ultimate victims...over half a MILLION Arab Muslims have been slaughtered from the Assad/Russia/US/Iranian war in Syria the last few years. Tens of thousands of Libyans dead from Hillary Clinton and Obamas invasion in 2011. Close to a million dead from the combined death/displacement in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen. And thats the ultimate tragedy