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[–] Lord_McAlister@lemmy.world 78 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don't think this is an atheist meme I think it's anti-muslim. After all the rampant issues with Islamic countries in the Middle east I see as sourced from the corruption in their leaders who allow these aspect of their religion to circumvent other aspects of their religion, the same way Republicans have convinced Christians telling the poor to go fuck themselves is Christian only they've allowed the atrocities committed in the name of their religion to justify far worse standards in the middle east.

[–] 13esq@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Precisely. There are millions of Muslims that don't feel the need or want to push their religion on others. As usual it is a minority that ruin things for the majority.

I'm atheist and anti-religion, but I believe in live and let live just as much as many Muslims do.

[–] PantsOffDanceOff@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same can be said about Christians but don’t see you on the jokes about them defending their religion….

[–] leraje@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe because the xtian memes make jokes about how stupid it is, not jokes about them beheading people?

[–] Ipodjockey@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah... This.

[–] Helldiver_M@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree with the overall sentiment of your comment, but everyone is always quick to point out the flaws in the Middle East, and they never bring up the world's largest Muslim county. In Indonesia, Atheists would be prosecuted under their blasphemy laws. Things don't always need to be so unstable as the Middle East for religious extremists to deny our right to exist.

[–] thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every religion will have extremists, though. Even atheists have extremists.

[–] ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

Christian majority countries armed the right wing extremist in the Middle East so they could execute every last moderate, secularist, and progressive. And then we deliberately destabilized the region for a century, keeping them stuck in the past.

And now we’re blaming one religion over another. It’s pretty ridiculous.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Doesn't it say in the Quran "let there be no compulsion in religion"? Like with any religion there are contradictions, but people will take advantage of particular interpretations for political gain.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’ve been reading the Koran out of curiosity. I’m only 25% through now, but I haven’t found a lot of commandments to murder non-Muslims. In fact it seems to recognize Judaism and Christianity as close cousins. It seems willing to tolerate any of these monotheists and gives the appearance that they’ve all been describing the same one deity.

As the founding text of Islam it entered a world that had no Muslims, so it seems strange for it to command the murder of non Muslims. But hey maybe I’ll come to that part soon.

What it does say is that non believers will die in anguish in the fires of hell. It says this over and over, with angry threats. It’s a mean book.

[–] plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

Some of the hadith get pretty spicy - but they're not gospel, so to speak. Or at least, different groups have different views on which of the hadith should count, and many of these groups dont like each other, to put it mildly.

[–] ArgentRaven@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The first half is like that. It's the second half that gets less tolerant.

[–] zaph@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can tell by the big noses that a boomer Christian made this.