Poeticus
| abhyAvartin |
Here's something that will boggle the crap out of your mind:Hmmm.
Well, how about peaceful Muslims, like my friends who came to the states from Syria? I love them, they are generous, loving, joyful...they condemn ISIS, and all of the violence that extremists support claiming that it is on behalf of Islam. Do you believe that they choose to ignore the dark parts of their religion's history?
I ask that, because when I was a Catholic...(I was indoctrinated into the faith from childhood)...I either ignored or explained away the 'inconvenient truths' of my religion.
There are tons and tons of Muslims that are truly secular and abhor violence of any kind. These are practically no different from your average folks here in the States: they vote, they pay their taxes, they work, they go to school, they watch Game of Thrones, they chillax, they party, and chill some more. There are tons and tons of Muslims that are like this. You just never really hear about them because of two big reasons: the media doesn't give a flying crap about 'em; and they are often ridiculed and condemned by the religious rigorists of their own communities.
Now we all know that the media doesn't really care about them, there's no surprise there. But what many of us don't know is how they are often condemned unnecessarily by the members of their own religious groups. Ever tried being a Muslim female dating a non-Muslim male? I have numerous Muslim female friends that have said that they have had to suppress so many crushes because they are often scared of what their brothers or fathers will do for being with a non-Muslim boy. Ever had a Muslim friend get caught by the orthodox members of their communities for celebrating festivals like Holi and Diwali? Sh*t ain't pretty, I tell ya, holmes.
What's worse is the amount of rejection and ostracizing so many of these Muslims face if they 1) come out of the closet 2) detail that they don't think the Quran is infallible 3) and wish to come out culturally Muslim but not religiously Islamic, or a simple, "I am no longer a Muslim". And before someone says that this is cultural and not Islamic, it's imperative to understand that culture and religion often go hand in hand in communities that operate under religio-cultural implementations regarding societal interaction and conduct, hence the compound "religio-cultural" (i.e., "ethno-religious").
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