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I had no idea he was Muslim.
He converted in 2022 to boost his standing in Dubai with crypto traders
The funny thing is, Muslims will absolutely discipline their own, and most tend to not like abuse of women, especially how Tate does it. There's morally allowed abuses of women in some sects, but they have to be seen as justified in some regard - eg rejecting a MARRIAGE proposal might result in an acid attack. A man preying on women to sleep with him, no marriage, like how Tate does it and speaks about it, goes against everything I'm aware of in the Quran and could result in a jihad response afaik (not violent jihad per se).
He's just so disrespectful and arrogant he thinks no one will touch him.
Are you suggesting that there are mainstream (are other) sects of Islam that teach that the "justified" response to a marriage proposal rejection is an acid attack...?
There are extremist sects of Islam (not the vast majority of Muslims, who are extremely charitable and who invented the first hospital, which was free, among many other things) that have incorporated acid attacks on women as a form of what they see as valid punishment, yes, and they have supporters who think this is a good thing to do and that the women deserve it for tempting the men. It is not ONLY people in these groups or who are Muslim who do acid attacks ofc, acid attacks are a global issue.
I have seen interviews and discussions by women who've been attacked with acid and that is what they describe in terms of public sentiment ("she deserved it,") and thus their advocacy work centralizes around changing those beliefs.
https://resurge.org/stories/two-acid-attack-survivors-meet-for-the-first-time/
https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/acid-attacks-pakistans-worst-social-epidemic
Here's a brief list of countries and some incidents and explains motivating factors for the attacks: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_attack
That's a societal issue. You still haven't sourced which sect justifies it. If you said something like this with Judaism, you would be called an anti semite. You are making up a claim with some examples, not proving your claim. Or do you just not understand what a sect means?
Name them
I literally already did, it's in the Wikipedia article I linked, in the region area. Clearly you didn't bother to look.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_attack
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/14/world/asia/14kandahar.html
And I'm totally comfortable saying that there are Jewish extremist groups who commit terrorism to harm others as well. And there's Christian and Buddhist groups that do that as well. It's not antisemitic or Islamophobic to literally describe what people are doing, per survivors from those groups. That it makes those specific Islamic groups look bad is, well, on them. Don't burn people with acid. Don't genocide Gazans. Etc.
And as I've already said, yes, other people and other groups burn people with acid too. That's not really relevant to my original comment though, which is about how Islamic sects will likely not tolerate someone like the Tates, even if those same people do other things that harm women. Yes, there is abuse of women in Islam with some groups, including acid attacks, but that abuse is often informed by the moral code of those practitioners and absolutely nothing the Tates do is justifiable by the religion. The idea of the Prophet Mohammed being okay with sex trafficking - that’s extremely offensive. It's an extreme moral incompatibility that will likely result in conflict since he is harming real people pretty indiscriminately.