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Originally Posted by FoldnDark
Again, not sure why you think any set of ideas is special in this regard. Scientologists are constantly suing people who criticize them and their religion, yet there's little sympathy from you for them I assume. I have, and so many other liberals have beat up on Christianity and those within it who support changing laws to prevent gay marriage or a woman's right to choose, still more brutally those who support violence against gays or abortion doctors.
These continued arguments and many more are what has forced religions in the West to continue reforming, or else lose membership.
Yet those exact types of criticisms are being labeled prejudiced every day when anyone dares speak out about Islam, or specifically those within the religion who hold those same views. I linked you a video, and can show you many more examples if you wish. Perhaps you are not doing this, and perhaps TS is over the line. Simply showing that with better arguments should suffice in correcting him.
Meanwhile, those criticisms that are accurate can help inform the world of Islam's terrible ideas, and just like other religions like Christianity, Islam will be forced to answer these criticisms or lose membership. How else do you suggest Islam, or any religion or set of ideas be treated?
Hopefully you'll be surprised with how simple this is:
What Muslims believe is a religion topic.
We can learn what happens when it is manufactured into a pseudo-political topic. That thread.
What does unregulated prejudicial argument do to any given Muslim's beliefs ? Nothing? Anything? What influence is really that impressive here? We are talking about human beings when referencing Muslims. If we leave any of them out of our graphs and flowcharts of their beleifs, are we telling a worthwhile honest narrative?
BTW- I'd leave the thread as a monument of how to create confusion and make impressions more than one of information of what to expect from Muslim neighbors. A religion forum would be the smart place to discuss what it might mean for a Muslim to move near you. IMO