Comments by "" (@titteryenot4524) on "Salman Rushdie shares what he wanted to do immediately after being attacked" video.
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As a lifelong agnostic, I have very little time for any organised religion. However, the thing that should be said is that I feel zero personal threat from any organised religion, bar one. If I were a public figure and publicly castigated Jesus, or Moses, or Krishna, or Buddha, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it’s very likely nothing would happen to me. If I publicly lambasted Muhammad, it’s quite likely there’d be a backlash and I’d be watching my back for the rest of my life. That’s the difference. Just ask Salman Rushdie. It seems Islam is so trigger-sensitive it can’t take honest criticism, when it’s just a bunch of manmade ideas like all the rest. Never let anyone tell you it’s ‘racist’ or a ‘hate-crime’ to criticise Islam. Islam is a belief-system held by people of multifarious races. Islam seems to think it’s entitled to a free pass when it comes to scrutiny. If Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Spaghettiism, etc. are subject to criticism, then Islam is too.
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@juanesteban8827 The difference, I think, is 2-fold: 1. Islam is unabashedly and overtly political. The Ayatollah Khomeini was quite open about this: “Islam is political or it is nothing.” This is always dangerous when you tether your personal imaginary, unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddy to the sublunary sphere. It has no place in politics. Your religion needs to stay out of secular life. It must be a strictly private matter kept to your home and your place of worship. 2. Muslims (even the more moderate ones) tend to take the word of the Quran quite literally, in the same way all Christians did before Christianity had a Reformation and there was an Enlightenment. I live somewhere with a high Muslim population and to a man and a woman these people take the Quran 100% at its word as dictation by the Angel Gabriel to an illiterate goat herder. If you read the Quran (like the Bible) it is often a violent, nasty, horrible piece of work. If, in 2024, millions (billions!) of individuals are taking this stuff as the literal word of Allah, then it’s no wonder if people like me suggest it might be a steaming pile of 💩 that we are targeted(in the same way non-Christians we’re targeted by literalist Christians hundreds of years ago). I have no fear of critiquing the God of the Old Testament, but I wouldn’t dare publicy critique Muhammad, the Quran or Islam more generally. Why? 2 words: Salman Rushdie.
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