This post is what happens when Wikipedia, Victorian-era racism, and Facebook comments form a megachurch.
Let’s start simple:
Islam is “not a religion,” yet somehow has theology, law, mysticism, prayer, fasting, pilgrimage, saints, philosophers, hospitals, universities, poetry, and 1.9 billion adherents.
By that definition, Christianity wasn’t a religion until Constantine gave it zoning permits.
“Sharia law is the only system Muslims adhere to.”
Cool. Then someone should tell the millions of Muslims living under British, American, Indian, and secular legal systems who file taxes, serve in the military, vote, and sue their landlords. They’ve clearly missed the memo from the Global Caliphate HR department.
“Islam has been at war with the rest of the world for 1400 years.”
Right. That’s why medieval Europe borrowed algebra, medicine, optics, paper-making, and Aristotle from Muslim civilizations while Christians were busy arguing about how many angels fit on a pin.
Turns out “war” is a funny word for “preserved the intellectual inheritance of the West.”
The Ottoman Empire is described as backward and corrupt, which is interesting because Europe spent centuries trying not to get steamrolled by it. Nothing says “primitive” like administering a multi-ethnic empire while Europe was still perfecting religious slaughter.
Yes, the Armenians were slaughtered. That was a crime.
It was carried out by a collapsing nationalist state, not “Islam.”
If we’re assigning collective guilt by religion, Christianity is about to have a very bad millennium.
Population growth as a “weapon”?
That’s not theology. That’s biology. Catholics do it too. So do evangelicals. So do Mormons. Apparently procreation is now jihad.
And the Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict being framed as Muslims vs Christians is the cherry on top. That war is about territory, post-Soviet borders, and geopolitics. But sure, let’s reduce it to medieval cosplay. It saves time.
What’s really happening here is simpler:
This post needs Islam to be a cartoon villain because the alternative is scarier.
The alternative is admitting Muslims are normal people practicing a demanding religion in a secular world, and that’s harder to hate.
The irony?
The Muslims being described here are far more disciplined, prayerful, family-oriented, and morally serious than the Christians posting this stuff.
Which might be the actual grievance.
Fear isn’t analysis.
And calling your panic “history” doesn’t make it less embarrassing.
Blessed are the loud and wrong, for Facebook will reward them.
You are a rare sort of idiot. But let me respond anyway. You say:
The alternative is admitting Muslims are normal people practicing a demanding religion in a secular world, and that’s harder to hate.
Yes the vast majority of Muslim's -- that I know -- are great people. But unlike Judaism and Christianity Islam has not changed their views in the wake of the Enlightenment. You seem to suffer from Terminal Empathy as Gad Saad would put it. You are essentially a wood cricket.
This post is what happens when Wikipedia, Victorian-era racism, and Facebook comments form a megachurch.
Let’s start simple:
Islam is “not a religion,” yet somehow has theology, law, mysticism, prayer, fasting, pilgrimage, saints, philosophers, hospitals, universities, poetry, and 1.9 billion adherents.
By that definition, Christianity wasn’t a religion until Constantine gave it zoning permits.
“Sharia law is the only system Muslims adhere to.”
Cool. Then someone should tell the millions of Muslims living under British, American, Indian, and secular legal systems who file taxes, serve in the military, vote, and sue their landlords. They’ve clearly missed the memo from the Global Caliphate HR department.
“Islam has been at war with the rest of the world for 1400 years.”
Right. That’s why medieval Europe borrowed algebra, medicine, optics, paper-making, and Aristotle from Muslim civilizations while Christians were busy arguing about how many angels fit on a pin.
Turns out “war” is a funny word for “preserved the intellectual inheritance of the West.”
The Ottoman Empire is described as backward and corrupt, which is interesting because Europe spent centuries trying not to get steamrolled by it. Nothing says “primitive” like administering a multi-ethnic empire while Europe was still perfecting religious slaughter.
Yes, the Armenians were slaughtered. That was a crime.
It was carried out by a collapsing nationalist state, not “Islam.”
If we’re assigning collective guilt by religion, Christianity is about to have a very bad millennium.
Population growth as a “weapon”?
That’s not theology. That’s biology. Catholics do it too. So do evangelicals. So do Mormons. Apparently procreation is now jihad.
And the Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict being framed as Muslims vs Christians is the cherry on top. That war is about territory, post-Soviet borders, and geopolitics. But sure, let’s reduce it to medieval cosplay. It saves time.
What’s really happening here is simpler:
This post needs Islam to be a cartoon villain because the alternative is scarier.
The alternative is admitting Muslims are normal people practicing a demanding religion in a secular world, and that’s harder to hate.
The irony?
The Muslims being described here are far more disciplined, prayerful, family-oriented, and morally serious than the Christians posting this stuff.
Which might be the actual grievance.
Fear isn’t analysis.
And calling your panic “history” doesn’t make it less embarrassing.
Blessed are the loud and wrong, for Facebook will reward them.
You are a rare sort of idiot. But let me respond anyway. You say:
The alternative is admitting Muslims are normal people practicing a demanding religion in a secular world, and that’s harder to hate.
Yes the vast majority of Muslim's -- that I know -- are great people. But unlike Judaism and Christianity Islam has not changed their views in the wake of the Enlightenment. You seem to suffer from Terminal Empathy as Gad Saad would put it. You are essentially a wood cricket.
Truth!👍
Thanks. I try to do my best. LOL