You are asking the wrong group to stop being asshole*
Burning religious books is a reaction to religious people being assholes… when they are not assholes people don’t burn their books. It reminds me this cartoon I saw once, a priest beating a guy with a huge cross calling him sinner, infidel, or whatever, and then the guy gets fed up and takes the cross from the priest and breaks it, then the priest starts crying religious intolerance.
I’m sure it will stop religious people being arseholes. Worked a treat when he burned that Qur’an, didn’t it? Really helped in persuading the guy that he was up against the good guys, who definitely aren’t arseholes as well, hell bent on destroying everything that has meaning for him. It really fucking helps, doesn’t it?
Oh, and the real, fundamental reason for burning it is racism. Just in case no one here had thought of it. It’s not some brave attempt at free speech or protest, it’s being racist and winding up the Muslims. Just fucking say it.
I’m always amused by the amount of people who think Muslim is a race… my country has the largest Syrian and Lebanese population outside their countries, all very cool people with the most delicious restaurants and a very proud of their culture… none Muslim, though. The immigration actually started with people fleeing from Ottoman religious persecution.
I miss the pan-Arabism, but the USA has managed to slowly crush all secular regimes and groups in the region, first by training and arming radical religious militias to fight the Soviets, and then doing that just to take control of the region’s resources, and all that was left were destroyed cultures ruled by religious fundamentalists.
Muslim, especially in the USA and Europe, is just a synonym for brown/black people.
Also I am confident that some of the Syrians and Libanese are actually Muslims, you just don’t talk to them, so how would you know? Because Muslims don’t have symbols like Christians do.
I’m sure some are, actually in the last Israeli incursion in Lebanon our government sent planes to rescue several of our citizens that were there and majority seemed to be Muslim, but they were probably part of a newer immigration and I’m not sure if there are communities or if it’s individual families that immigrated, because the historical mass immigration that we had here (which started in the 1880s) and founded a strong community was actually running from Muslims. As I said, it’s the largest Syrian and Lebanese population outside their own countries, it’s not just some small community, so they are very well spread and integrated, they even founded our most important hospital (which, by the way, is called Sírio-Libanês). How do I know? Well, turn out I went to college just to study history, but I do personally know Syrian/Lebanese descendants because, as a I said, they are not few, I went to school with several, they introduced me to arak, great times, also my mom’s godfather was Lebanese… but that doesn’t matter because I’m sure you already know everything about me and my country’s history.
You are asking the wrong group to stop being asshole*
Burning religious books is a reaction to religious people being assholes… when they are not assholes people don’t burn their books. It reminds me this cartoon I saw once, a priest beating a guy with a huge cross calling him sinner, infidel, or whatever, and then the guy gets fed up and takes the cross from the priest and breaks it, then the priest starts crying religious intolerance.
I’m sure it will stop religious people being arseholes. Worked a treat when he burned that Qur’an, didn’t it? Really helped in persuading the guy that he was up against the good guys, who definitely aren’t arseholes as well, hell bent on destroying everything that has meaning for him. It really fucking helps, doesn’t it?
Oh, and the real, fundamental reason for burning it is racism. Just in case no one here had thought of it. It’s not some brave attempt at free speech or protest, it’s being racist and winding up the Muslims. Just fucking say it.
I’m always amused by the amount of people who think Muslim is a race… my country has the largest Syrian and Lebanese population outside their countries, all very cool people with the most delicious restaurants and a very proud of their culture… none Muslim, though. The immigration actually started with people fleeing from Ottoman religious persecution.
I miss the pan-Arabism, but the USA has managed to slowly crush all secular regimes and groups in the region, first by training and arming radical religious militias to fight the Soviets, and then doing that just to take control of the region’s resources, and all that was left were destroyed cultures ruled by religious fundamentalists.
Muslim, especially in the USA and Europe, is just a synonym for brown/black people. Also I am confident that some of the Syrians and Libanese are actually Muslims, you just don’t talk to them, so how would you know? Because Muslims don’t have symbols like Christians do.
I’m sure some are, actually in the last Israeli incursion in Lebanon our government sent planes to rescue several of our citizens that were there and majority seemed to be Muslim, but they were probably part of a newer immigration and I’m not sure if there are communities or if it’s individual families that immigrated, because the historical mass immigration that we had here (which started in the 1880s) and founded a strong community was actually running from Muslims. As I said, it’s the largest Syrian and Lebanese population outside their own countries, it’s not just some small community, so they are very well spread and integrated, they even founded our most important hospital (which, by the way, is called Sírio-Libanês). How do I know? Well, turn out I went to college just to study history, but I do personally know Syrian/Lebanese descendants because, as a I said, they are not few, I went to school with several, they introduced me to arak, great times, also my mom’s godfather was Lebanese… but that doesn’t matter because I’m sure you already know everything about me and my country’s history.
Brother I know nothing about you, but what you write sounds like you haven’t talked to a lot of muslims, and like youre an islamophobe.
But I don’t judge you, I do just observe. But you do give strong “I am not racist because I have friends that are black” vibes.