• kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    If “islamophobia” meant simply being scared of and/or hostile toward Islam itself and not Muslims and/or Arabs in general, then you’d have a point here, but that isn’t what’s happening.

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        1 day ago

        On top of the magical thinking encouraged by any religion, Islam:

        • Explicitly condones child marriage and rape (Muhammad married Aisha when she was 6-9 and consummated the marriage at 9-12)
        • Explicitly condones slavery; many of the details of the way in which it does this were progressive for the time, such as freeing slaves as atonement for sins, but that’s the problem with considering a text to be eternally perfect: the world moves on. Kosher butchering is another example of this phenomenon.
        • Strongly condemns apostasy; a minority of scholars believe that the only punishment involved is in the afterlife, but even then, there’s social pressure to not even consider leaving the religion. This ties back into the suppression of free thought and the encouragement of magical thinking common to so many religions.