Create an OP full of straw man arguments, unsupported suppositions or any poorly reasoned set of statements with no evidence.
When asked to back up your assertions, do more of the same.
Continue missing the point, but claim to be interested in hearing counter-arguments.
Get snippy, defensive and later on claim that all the people pointing out your assertions are BS really haven’t presented any good factual, counter claims to your silly OP. It’s obviously either personal and / or the inherent bias of the board.
Very helpful to have a recent join date and be still in high school, or at least argue as if you were.
Leave the board in a huff, claiming victory all along.
Honestly OP, I’d rather you didn’t do #7. Stick around, listen a bit, learn about good evidence and arguments, then try again.
Honestly OP. The reason why no one is taking you seriously is that you haven’t put together a cohesive argument about anything. There are people out there who have made cogent (if, in my opinion, wrong) arguments about this topic. Go find them and come back with something that makes sense.
And this is critical, it has to make sense TO YOUR AUDIENCE. It doesn’t matter if *you *think it makes sense, if everyone you present it to tells you it’s half baked and illogical.
Why does the left not care? Why offend a potential voter.
Religion for some unexplained reason gets a pass for irrational and illiberal messages. Now if it were merely an ideology it would be condemned as being the second coming of Nazism.
You mention the beliefs of some Muslims. Islam is diverse as any religion, and there are Muslims (and Christians) who believe they are justified in beating women by their religion, and there are Muslims (and Christians) who believe that their religion specifically outlaws beating women. It’s trivially easy to find scripture from just about any religious text, including the Bible, the Quran, the Torah, and many others, to support and oppose terrorism, wife-beating, rape, slavery, etc. There’s nothing special about the Quran and about Islam, and it’s largely a coincidence (or a result of non-scriptural geopolitical factors) that at this moment in history, there is a slightly larger association between extremist violence and Islam than for other religions. In the past this was different, and there are various points in history in which Christians and Christian societies were more violent than Muslims and Islamic societies.
One of the big reasons is that, by and large, the most wealthy and powerful countries in the world are not Islamic. Extremist violence is generally a tool of the powerless, and there are a lot more relatively powerless groups of Muslims than groups of Christians. In places in which Christian groups are similarly powerless, like in many parts of Africa, Christian extremist violence is as common or more so than Muslim extremist violence.
I don’t ‘support’ Islam. I support religious freedom, for willing participants who are of no harm to others. I do not support oppression of any religion where the vast majority of its practitioners are completely harmless. I don’t support your rather vague arguments because you are erroneously attempting to claim that the actions of a few zealots accurately represent the beliefs of all the adherents of a certain faith.
Nothing; it’s a religion, and all religions are innately worthless and destructive. That’s what they are for; a repository of horrible, indefensible beliefs that can’t survive without the “religion” label.
Opposing persecution isn’t the same as “supporting Islam”.
And the great majority of the harping about how evil Islam is, is nothing more than a Christian attempt to destroy their rival and push Christianity. That’s why everyone goes on and on about Islamic terrorism and bigotry and whatnot, but instantly starts making apologies for Christianity when anyone points out it has the same flaws.
Sure it does. That’s an unpopular religious position, at least as unpopular as Islam; and if Islamic people can be legally persecuted, so can atheists.
