Nope.
If you say so. I have nothing more to say in this thread to proponents of the White Man's Burden.
I honestly think you've cocked up somewhere if you somehow think oppression of women is somehow cultured.
I'm not even going to go into this. The Qur'an takes a much more liberating stance towards women than any other Abrahamic text. If you think the freedom for women to wear modest clothing makes them 'oppressed', you're a fucking idiot.
If somehow anti scientific viewpoints are somehow forward.
For most of the past two centuries, Muslim nations were at the forefront of scientific development. Muslim nations developed algebra and improved astronomical instruments. They developed mathematical formulas allowing for the construction of buildings in a scale not seen before in history. Today, the scientific output of Muslim nations, while diminished compared to the West, is still significant. Iranian scientific output alone ranks far above any other developing nation, and is expected to rank fourth worldwide by 2018. Again, you're a fucking idiot.
If a solely patriarchal theocratic religion of violence and death that worships a god damn asteroid is somehow progressive.
Wat. Muslims worship the same god as Jews and Christians. An atheist complaining about the use of an asteroid in the construction of a religious temple is also somehow really laughable. You're a fucking idiot.
You can't separate the shariah law from Islam. Someone, for whatever reason, has packaged the two together. And it is without a doubt one of the most oppressive regimes in existence.
Haf covered this. You're still a fucking idiot.
I love how all of you are quite happily arguing that somehow it's good and enlightened and that "oh that's just teachings nobody reads" when I can easily point to its source in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Afghanistan, to point out how oppressive it is, and how I can point to unrest by Muslims trying to override our centuries of progressive, enlightened culture with their own, in countries including Britain, France, Germany, and Australia.
And right back to the xenophobic, ethnocentric views Jorost was just espousing. You're a fucking idiot.
The culture is not compatible, it is aggressively expansionist, is manipulative, and violent. It must be opposed.
This deluded view has been debunked over and over again in this thread and elsewhere. You're a fucking idiot.
Some Taoist regemes may be oppressive.All Islamic regemes are oppressive. Bar none.That's a difference. I have no tolerance, and no time for this topic. Unless you want it to explode into a heated shouting match, I suggest you close this thread and back away slowly. This is your last chance.
WHAAA LET ME BE A RACIST BITCH AND STOP THROWING LOGIC IN MY FACE. You're a fucking idiot.
Buddhism can't really be opressive; it wouldn't be buddhism then anymore, it's something else.
While as a Buddhist I'd tend to agree with that view of it as a philosophy, that certainly doesn't stop individual extremists from using it in the same way extremist Muslims do. Just yesterday, two mosques in Myanmar were burned down, and several people injured, in separate attacks by predominantly Buddhist mobs.
Will people stop trying to defend this sick abomination please? Cause you're wrong. Evil, possibly.
The only evil in this thread are those trying to make a case for bigoted hatred. You're a fucking idiot.