Yes, I’ve met muslims. Yes, I’m familiar with the differences between the Taliban and Hamas, and how Hamas is an even more violent offshoot of another violent Islamic terrorist the Muslim Brotherhood. I’m familiar with the differences between Shia and Sunni. My strong distaste for Islam is, unfortunately, backed by research into the faith, its origins, and the history of its effect on populations of the world.

Didn’t say it wasn’t noteworthy, nor did I say it should continue. I only said that if it were up to them I would be dead, apostasy is punishable by death under Sharia law and atheism counts as apostasy.

Further, this is only one of many genocides going on in the world at the moment, and while still sad and condemnable, is less “effective” than others — say the genocide of the Uyghurs in China, or the countless genocidal/humanitarian crises in Africa affecting Muslims and non-muslims alike on a scale that dwarfs Palestine/Israel. How/why should I give more than a second of thought to things I have no control over and don’t affect me or my loved ones on the other side of the world? Again, tragic stuff, but tf am I gonna do? Virtue signal for internet points? Nah, enough people doing it already and it’s inescapable.

I mean, it’s not prejudiced. It’s in the Quran and discussed amongst Imams/Islamic scholars. Sure, the watered-down Twelvers aren’t going around beheading people in the US, but it’s still a principle of Twelver belief to amass/promote all Islamic growth, including the sects of Islam that do want Sharia law.

Look at Dearborn, Michigan and how the majority Muslim community and city council and mayor are treating non-Muslim citizens, particularly those who are LGBTQ+ immediately upon gaining political/administrative power.

With Islam, the issue is both ideological and based in leadership at the moment. The same goes for Mormons and Hassidics, but the more general and basic versions of those religions don’t promote or encourage the growth of the more “extreme” sects quite like Islam does. Christianity certainly has a chokehold on the US and it’s being wielded in an awful way by the admin. Yet at the root of it the life and teachings of Mohammed and Jesus are RADICALLY and I mean INSANELY RADICALLY different to the point of moral disgust at Mohammed and a passive indifference towards Jesus.

At no point have I said violence solves anything here. I agree that it creates only more radicals/gives them reason for retaliation — justified or not.

Props to the dude for trying. A shame the 2018 UN vote got fucked up by, oh let’s see: China, Russia, and every Islamic State — preventing Hamas from appropriately being designated a terrorist org.

Dude might still be alive had it been successful because then we wouldn’t have morons swaying public opinion by saying dogwhistle genocidal call shit like “From the river to the sea” lol. But no, since it was never designated, people now make arguments that those fuckers are a “resistance force” and no intelligent conversations can be had 90% of the time.