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I_Framed_OJ t1_jaivjfu wrote

“This is all the West’s fault!” You know, it gets really tiresome when any country or population, not just Islamic ones, cannot take responsibility for their own policies and practices, and instead play the eternal victim, blaming Europe and America for every little thing that has gone wrong. Like their lot in life is due to “colonialism” or something. The “West” is not responsible for Iran stoning people to death, or hanging homosexuals in public. The “West” never forced the Afghanis to sew their women up in cloth bags and deny them an education or employment. If the “West” is engaged in political interference these days, it’s by providing moral support to protest movements against unjust, barbaric governments. As far as “constant attacks” go, Israel has indeed engaged in crimes against the Palestinians. Let’s be perfectly clear, here. Powerful Muslim nations such as Iran and the Saudis do not give a fuck about the Palestinians. They want them to suffer, so they can demonize Israel and America and distract their own populations from the depredations they themselves inflict on their own people.

Yes, colonialism caused a lot of damage from which many nations may never fully recover, and America has engaged in despicable acts throughout their short history. But honour killings do not happen in the West, except among immigrant communities from Muslim countries. Throwing acid in a woman’s face because she rejects a marriage proposal does not happen in the West. Cutting criminals’ body parts off, or having them publicly flogged, does not happen in the West. Nobody here ever told Muslim societies to do any of these things, either. Muslims decided that stuff on their own, based on the ravings of an illiterate, bronze-aged sheep-herder turned violent warlord (and paedophile - his 3rd wife Aisha was still playing with goddamn dolls when he consummated their disgusting marriage).

It isn’t even strictly Islam. This stuff doesn’t happen in Indonesia, for example. They’ve got other problems. But people in the Middle East will keep fighting and quarrelling and killing each other with bombs so long as they remain in thrall to their religious leaders and continue blaming the “West” for all the evils in the World. Spare me your belly-aching. My compassion and patience have run out.

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