To be fair to the Red-Green Alliance, hardcore Islamists in the West have a tendency to become bleeding-heart civil rights activists when it comes to the horrors of Islamophobia, and will diligently vote for whichever local socialist candidate conveniently manages to recognise their plight, though they do also seem curiously absent when the time comes to march for anyone else...
To be fair to the Red-Green Alliance, hardcore Islamists in the West have a tendency to become bleeding-heart civil rights activists when it comes to the horrors of Islamophobia, and will diligently vote for whichever local socialist candidate conveniently manages to recognise their plight, though they do also seem curiously absent when the time comes to march for anyone else...
The "good Islamic" people everyone loves to talk about are mostly excited to get the fuck away from Islamic countries. I know several of them.
The ones who are economic "refugees" for reasons other than escaping repressive middle eastern regimes are generally a lot less good/laudable in their views and serious about the backward parts of Islam.
Islam, bring a bit of the 1800s (or 800s) tribal nomad viewpoint to your neighborhood today!
Islam is a lot more true to what it is than Christianity, and in many things such honesty and consistency is laudable.
On the other hand when it is a worldview literally out of the "Dark Ages"...well.
ItтАЩs quite funny that the left brushed off all information about how Muslims were less supportive of things such as womenтАЩs equality or LGBT rights a decade ago because they were so intent on making Muslims into perfect pet victims who were so unjustly targeted by those meanies on the right to now realize that the detractors were correct. My response is тАЬserves you right, you should have just not stuck up for them in the first place. Pick which group gets your sympathy because it canтАЩt be bothтАЭ.
As an am upper-middle class liberal who's never actually talked to the average euro-moroccan teen, I'm shocked. I thought they were all about adding harissa to quirky tapas dishes.
To be fair to the Red-Green Alliance, hardcore Islamists in the West have a tendency to become bleeding-heart civil rights activists when it comes to the horrors of Islamophobia, and will diligently vote for whichever local socialist candidate conveniently manages to recognise their plight, though they do also seem curiously absent when the time comes to march for anyone else...
The "good Islamic" people everyone loves to talk about are mostly excited to get the fuck away from Islamic countries. I know several of them.
The ones who are economic "refugees" for reasons other than escaping repressive middle eastern regimes are generally a lot less good/laudable in their views and serious about the backward parts of Islam.
Islam, bring a bit of the 1800s (or 800s) tribal nomad viewpoint to your neighborhood today!
Islam is a lot more true to what it is than Christianity, and in many things such honesty and consistency is laudable.
On the other hand when it is a worldview literally out of the "Dark Ages"...well.
ItтАЩs quite funny that the left brushed off all information about how Muslims were less supportive of things such as womenтАЩs equality or LGBT rights a decade ago because they were so intent on making Muslims into perfect pet victims who were so unjustly targeted by those meanies on the right to now realize that the detractors were correct. My response is тАЬserves you right, you should have just not stuck up for them in the first place. Pick which group gets your sympathy because it canтАЩt be bothтАЭ.
And curiously willing to immediately crack down on gays, women, etc whenever they manage to secure a slice of political power, cf. Hamtramck.
As an am upper-middle class liberal who's never actually talked to the average euro-moroccan teen, I'm shocked. I thought they were all about adding harissa to quirky tapas dishes.