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You're welcome to elaborate? I feel I speak not from prejudice but from experience having lived and travelled widely in the Muslim world.
Say you have a bunch of Nazi grizzly bears living outside and around your village.
They don't do fuck all to the people of your village. In fact, some are actually coming through the village sometimes, but they don't hurt anyone. They're just Nazi fucks. But they enjoy your village and they sometimes fertilize your parks.
Then someone says, these fucking grizzly bears are Nazis, goddammit, imma burn piles of "Mein Kampf" as a protest!
So they do, and all the grizzly bears get provoked, enter the village, and start attacking all the people.
Now, there's a whole bunch of people on both sides of this theoretical situation who will say this is black and white and in their favor -- how dare they burn our holy book! How dare they say we can't burn whatever we like in our own village!
But it's not black and white. It's gray af. It's freaking
#777.If you don't provoke them, there's no problem in the village. Sometimes it's enough knowing you have the right to do something, and too much to actually do it, because actually doing it creates a whole fucking heap of problems to your fellow villager, whereas not doing it would spare them these problems.
With great power comes great responsibility. Same thing with great freedoms. We have a bunch of freedoms. Let's not be stupid with them, lest they be taken away.
Word salad
I knew a lot of people can't comprehend this situation fully, but I will keep saying it until at least someone with some IQ gets it.
IQ tests are pseudoscience
Intelligence, then.
Define intelligence.
Enough to understand that things aren't always black and white, with some basic critical/analytical thinking.
You are the one making a declaration that blasphemy should be illegal
It shouldn't be, but we made it so by abusing our rights.
Rights can't be abused. And I am sorry you are afraid of an invisible man in the sky
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