Being vigilant about the issues in Islam isnât ignorant or prejudiced. It has some real problems. Frankly, as it is written, the Quran and the Hadith are incompatible with western secular society. Separation of mosque and state literally cannot exist in an Islamic framework like separation of church and state can with Christianity.
It definitely has some issues. Most of it due to Muhammed and how he was after the move to Medina. Dude became basically an Arab version of Genghis Khan. And Islam, in the later surrahs and the Hadith, basically justifies it.
Because frankly, and Iâm a secular person for the most part, Muhammed cobbled Islam together by mixing elements of Christianity, Judaism, and Arab pagan tribal religions together. He was a traveling merchant so he had experience with all of it since it was all running around the Arabian peninsula at the time he was alive. And it unified the various Arab tribes in a way they didnât have before that. and boy did they do some conquering for the next 200 years over it.
Plus I donât think anyone will ever the great conundrum at the center of Islam that Muslims conveniently ignore. On one hand it basically tells you to reference the Torah and the Gospels for certain information regarding the prophets. But on the other hand, it tells you that man corrupted the Torah and the gospel and that the Quran is the unaltered word of God. Thatâs a conundrum that kind of screws the whole thing with Islam up.
Willing because they will be punished if they donât.
Only once the punishment and stigma have been removed will you see how many are willing. But you can look at pictures of people on the streets of 1975 Teheran to get a good idea.
I imagine the Burqa is very much forced most of the time. It essentially depersons the woman wearing it. I highly doubt thereâs even one girl who actually wants to wear that nonsense
The Hijab is more complicated. Even in the pre-Islamic revolution days in Iran, when it wasnât legally required, or even today in Lebanon where the laws are similar to pre 1979 Iran, you often saw it on women in formal dress. The difference was back then that you didnât see girls wearing in areas where it clearly wasnât really useful, like the beach or next to a swimming pool. Basically I feel that girls who are actually dedicated Muslims willingly wear the hijab where they feel itâs appropriate to do so but thereâs definitely pressure on not particularly dedicated girls to conform.
But I donât feel the hijab should be outright banned though. But the Burqa? That â â â â is incompatible with western society and it literally serves no purpose other than to deperson the girls who are forced to wear it.
Well for one thing Christianity doesnât have a lot of the fundamental problems Islam has.
Also there are plenty of folks who hate Christians just like there are plenty of folks who unjustly hate Muslims. No one has an exclusive claim on that.
Of course! Thatâs what libs do best. Sucking up to Islam. Iâm guessing that you donât mind that Christians are the most oppressed religion on planet Earth and that most of that oppression comes from gay hating, women abusing Islam. Would I be correct?