You’re entire post shows that you’re basically attributing every bad thing that happens in the Muslim world to Islam, with that kind of warped standard of course you’d think islam is uniquely bad. FGM isn’t a Muslim thing, this has been debunked more times than I can count. Plenty of Christian countries do FGM and plenty of Muslim countries don’t. There is no specific injunction in islam to do FGM, and almost all anti-FGM campaigns currently happening in the Muslim world are utilizing Islamic religious scholars to stop the practice and educate the populace that it has nothing to do with Islam. Secondly, you point about boys getting abused, this is hilarious considering that the Catholic Church has been covering up child rape for centuries, but this is almost never attributed to Christianity. Westerners can see nuance when it comes to Christianity but all nuance flies out the window with Islam.
Gawd.
Just take a deep breath and read it again, maybe?
I know that FGM isn't an exclusively Muslim horror. But it is much more prevalent amongst Muslims than in any other religion. And, yes, although it is a cultural phenomenon that crosses religion, pretty much all people and groups who practice it view the practice as being tied up in their religious beliefs. I strongly believe that anyone who would do that to their daughter is a religious extremist, regardless of religion. But, again, it is more prevalent in Islam and, hence, by this metric Islam has more extremists.
As for the Catholic Church, maybe you should check out one of the Residential School threads to see what I have to say about that. I started my post by stating that I'm all for calling out all religions on their bullshit. I wasn't lying.
I'm not missing the nuance. I stated very clearly that moderate Muslims outnumber extremist Muslims and that Islam in and of itself is no better or worse than most religions. Again, I wasn't misrepresenting my own perspective, here.
Religious extremism exists everywhere and should be condemned everywhere. However, right now in this moment, Islam has a much higher proportion of extremists willing to participate in far more extreme acts (and over far smaller perceived slights) than other religions.
Your explanation was that this is because more Muslim's take their religion "seriously." It's an awful shitty take that I'm sure an awful lot of nonviolent Muslims would take issue with. But guess what? You're in luck. Moderate Muslims aren't going to stab you because your shitty take accused them of being not so serious about their religion. And the extremists are all nodding along. You've paid them a compliment. They're not violent extremist sociopaths; they're just "serious" about their religion.
This is my point. The one who doesn't seem to have a nuanced view here and can't separate moderate religious adherents (regardless of religion) from dangerous extremists (regardless of religion) would seem to be you.
Again, we're in a thread about a man who was stabbed in the arm and the neck and the eye and the liver for writing a book.
