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citation for violence
57% of American Muslims said Hamas' Oct 7 terrorist attack against Israel was "justified"
my main points are:
Islam is not a religion of peace. It is a political and judicial system with violent laws (Sharia) and an explicit manual of war and domination (Jihad). Yes, the future is not good, integration has failed. Trend: younger generations of Muslims in the West become more radicalized.
Pew Research: “Younger Muslim Americans are both much more religiously observant and more accepting of Islamic extremism than are older Muslim Americans… A pattern of greater acceptance of suicide bombing among young Muslim Americans corresponds with the Pew Global Attitude Project’s findings among Muslims in Great Britain, France, Germany and Spain” For example: 42% of young Muslims in France believe there are situations in which suicide bombings are justified. https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/old-assets/pdf/muslim-americans.pdf Yes, leftists advocate for Islam, they are TRAITORS of progressive values, so real progressives must stand against them. Salman Rushdie: The Western left has been an accomplice of violent forms of Islam, by covering up and even promoting religious fundamentalism. Leftists are taking up a role that used to belong to the far-right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxLjFi92FS4&feature=youtu.be
LGBTs, feminists, atheists, progressives... feel betrayed by the left, which denies the increase in homophobic attacks, waves of rapes by immigrants, a bleak future.... Instead, the left gives citizenship and political rights to millions of non-integrated Muslims, putting fundamental minority rights at risk... In that context, the phenomenon of "homonationalism" https://academic.oup.com/ijpor/article/33/1/171/5811110?login=false , arises: minorities threatened by Islam are allying with the right against the left. That’s a main reason why leftists are losing votes in Europe. No, not all religions are the same, Christianity is not as bad as Islam. Islam is the most violent religion of modern times. Fact: Christians make 33% of world population and are responsible for only 3% of terrorist attacks. Muslims make 21% of the population and 96% of attacks. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311886.2019.1584957
“Vast majority peaceful Muslims” is not true. Most Muslims in several countries support killing in the name of Islam. For instance: 84% of Muslims in Egypt defend death penalty to apostates. https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/old-assets/pdf/muslim-americans.pdf The mass migration of millions of Muslims to Europe is one of the biggest changes in modern history, of a magnitude whose consequences we still do not know, with an enormous risk of endless ethno-religious conflicts. Islam has been geographically and fundamentally incompatible with the West throughout history. Although there is the fairy tale of the “people of the Book” and examples of “peaceful coexistence” (as long as non-Muslims accept submission and have fewer rights), the clashes between Judaism, Christianity and Islam are among the longest and bloodiest conflicts in history.
Europe has already lost to Islam in several aspects. There are places in Europe where freedom and democracy are not valid anymore. Go to your nearest Muslim neighbourhood, raise a gay flag, kiss your gay lover, walk alone at night in short women’s clothes, dress as a Jew, show them a cartoon of Prophet Mohammed. High chances they’ll chop your head off. So never confront or harass an individual Muslim personally, you’re mathematically risking your life. That also affects European education: teachers criticizing Islam when Muslims are in the classroom is a big risk (based on statistics I already shared). It’s also not their fault, they’ve been brainwashed from childhood with this violent ideology. An indoctrinated child will be a fundamentalist adult, there is little chance of recovery. Europe will only be able to integrate Muslims by restricting all forms of Islamic education, when they teach children more philosophy, science, arts, civic values... and less religion.. As Richard Dawkins says: religious education for children is child abuse.
None of that copypasta rebuts what I said, but nice try.
got it you want apostates to shut the fuck up and ignore muslim radicalism and just die or suffer in silence like as this guy is saying
Insulting me and putting words in my mouth also does not rebut what I said.