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Offline Queefer Sutherland

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Re: Canadian Islamaphobia or Free Speech?
« Reply #15 on: February 27, 2017, 05:59:56 pm »
But if you believe the ideology is wrong aren't those who follow it wrong? I've been posting on this subject for years. I normally write nothing about Muslims in Canada, as in what to do with them. I don't think that is an issue. We have freedom of religion, and people can do and wear and believe what they want. I don't wish to change that in order to put additional pressure on Muslims to reform.

That being said I believe that Islam is a dumb ideology, and I don't wish to see its adherents growing in number in Canada. I can see no logical reason why we continue to import tens of thousands of its followers every year given the economic and social arguments against doing so. Nevertheless, and despite making free use of statistics and evidence, people still refer to what I write as xenophobia and Islamophobia.

Islam is an extremely broad ideology, with infinite variants from person to person.  To blanket all followers of Islam is like blanketing all followers of Christianity even though there's so many different sects with different interpretations and beliefs and each individual believer follows their religion in their own way.  Like Christians, most Muslims are pretty moderate in their beliefs.  They eat lots of good food with their families on their religious holidays like we do.  I've met a bunch of Muslims the last few years who would become my friends.  They're very normal people like you and I.  They don't demand ie: gender segregation in society etc.  They don't think non-believers are infidels.  Some females I know don't even wear a hijab or any head-covering. 

Most of them seem pretty lazy in their religious beliefs like most Christians.  I'd imagine the % of Muslims that pray to Mecca 5 times a day is similar as how many Christians go to church every Sunday.  Most Christians don't follow the Bible very closely in their day-to-day lives, and most Muslims don't follow the Koran very closely.  And like Christians, a lot of Muslims don't believe in the crazy stuff in their holy book either.  Ya there's dedicated Muslims just like there's dedicated Christians.  Most non-Muslims who talk about Islam or Muslims don't even know what the hell they're talking about beyond what they read in the news.
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