#criticism of islam

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"The pope gets ridiculed every day, but you don't see Catholics organizing terrorist attacks around the world." -- Salman Rushdie

Islam isn't "just like every religion."

#Salman Rushdie #islam #islamic violence #islamic terrorism #religion #criticism of islam #blasphemy #blasphemy laws #religion is a mental illness

[vouam]

(I believe this happened a few months ago, absolutely heartbreaking. Rest in peace.)

This tweet is currently going viral with (of course) a lot of men claiming ‘this is because of culture, not religion!’

They clearly lack critical thinking skills because while yes, the religion does not state women should be killed for showing their hair, she is still ordered to wear it by the Quran and threatened with Jahannam (hellfire). A woman revealing her hair is seen as a dishonour to the family - the exact motive for this case. Misogynistic culture obviously is a factor too. The entitlement to women’s bodies, control over their life or death, normalised violence. This case is clearly a result of both religion and culture.

Religion and misogynistic culture thrive because of one another. They use religion to justify their misogynistic cultural views and then claim ‘it’s culture!’ when something bad happens as a result.

In response to these comments from men, maybe do something about the mistreatment of women rather than play mental gymnastics because its culture not religion. Have some accountability. It’s still your culture and your religion, women are dying and you don’t care.

#radblr #radical feminism #radical feminist safe #radical feminists do interact #gender critical #radical feminist community #atheism #islam #feminism #religion #misogyny #honor killing #violence against women

[athenawasamerf]

Saudi Arabia never fails to send me into a rage. What the fuck do you MEAN sharia compliant scrubs??????? Do you know what the fuck the point of scrubs is??????? Can she run during a code?????? She’s a walking tripping hazard. That skirt will get caught on all sorts of shit, and will be sweeping the hospital floors all day long. It’s inconvenient, uncomfortable, and ridiculously restrictive.

And of fucking course they took off all the pockets.

#medical misogyny #radfem #radical feminism #radical feminist #religion critical #anti islam #islam critical

[cavalierzee]

End Racist Pro-Israel Media Coverage

#gaza #palestinians #free palestine #palestine #islamophobia #islam #photography #israel #media #media criticism #brainwave jr #propaganda #hasbara #palestinian resistance #manufactured consent #israeli propaganda #palestine news #genocide #free gaza #gaza strip #gaza genocide #gazaunderattack #palestine genocide #gaza under attack #gaza news #gaza war #gazan genocide #gaza now #gazan families #gazanation

[queerism1969]

Women in Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan are facing significant challenges in their fight for survival and equality, yet some self-identified feminists, known as TERFs, do not acknowledge or support their struggle and revolution.

#terfblr #radical feminism #gender critical #radfem #radblr #jk rowling #help iran #islamic republic of iran #iran news #iranian #iran women #iran government #iran protests #women movement of iran #jina mahsa amini #afghan women #afghanistan #taliban #united nations

[faircatch]

#islamic republic of iran #iran #elica le bon #Instagram #irgc #iranian people #israel #Listen to Iranian people #One correction: it was a 7 year old bedouin girl #and she's critically injured

[palipunk]

Having a Qunari character who happens to be Arab is one thing but having a Qunari character be Arab *because* they are Qunari is. Very strange. I stopped doing things with my Qunari characters because no matter how hard you try to include a SWANA perspective on it, the original coding of the Qunari is always going to be the racist shit that David Gaider wanted

#‘militant Islamic borg’ is kinda hard to change when it’s embedded into the game #I don’t know where that post is that talks about qunlat using actual Arabic words but it’s out there somewhere #da fandom critical #I saw that post circulating with the random mix of south Asian & SWANA aesthetics and it’s hhhhhh #and of course the mage rights activists have no issue with it lmaooo

[she-is-ovarit]

"Taliban sending Afghan women to prison to protect them from gender **sex-based violence"

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Taliban officials are sending Afghan women to prison to protect them from gender sex-based violence, according to a U.N. report published Thursday.

Before the Taliban seized power in 2021, there were 23 state-sponsored women protection centers in Afghanistan where survivors of gender sex-based violence could seek refuge. Now there are none, the U.N. report said.

Officials from the Taliban-led administration told the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan that there was no need for such shelters or that they were a Western concept.

The Taliban sends women to prison if they have no male relatives to stay with or if the male relatives are considered unsafe, the report said. Authorities have also asked male relatives for commitments or sworn statements that they will not harm a female relative, inviting local elders to witness the guarantee, it added.

Women are sent to prison for their protection “akin to how prisons have been used to accommodate drug addicts and homeless people in Kabul,” the report said. The Associated Press contacted Taliban-led ministries about where survivors of gender sex-based violence can seek help, what protection measures are in place, and the conviction rates for offenders, but nobody was available for comment.

Women and girls have been increasingly confined to their homes since the Taliban takeover in 2021. They are barred from education beyond sixth grade, including university, public spaces like parks, and most jobs. They are required to take a male chaperone with them on journeys of more than 72 km (45 miles) and follow a dress code. A Taliban decree in July ordered the closure of all beauty salons, one of the few remaining places that women could go to outside the home or family environment. But Afghanistan has, for years, ranked among the worst places in the world to be born female. Millions of girls were out of school before the Taliban takeover for cultural and other reasons. Child marriage, violence and abuse were widespread. Rights groups warned that Taliban rule would enable violence against women and girls and decimate any legal protections for them. Women are no longer working in the judiciary or law enforcement, not allowed to deal with crimes of gender sex-based violence, and only permitted to attend work when called upon by their male supervisors, according to the U.N. report.

#feminism #global feminism #Islam #Taliban #Afghan women #Afghanistan #women's oppression #femicide #violence against women #sex based oppression #intersectional feminism #radical feminism #radblr #gender critical feminism #male violence #female oppression #women's rights #incarceration

[voxpraxis]

lately i've been... idk if you can really call it "debating" but i've been interacting with some muslims in the comments of an instagram reel in which a young girl was speaking to a young boy (i want to emphasize that they are both children) and telling him that she wasn't allowed to speak to boys until she was married, because her parents and her religion said so. the boy was sad but replied with something like "oh, alright" and the caption & comments were all talking about how "sweet" the situation was. i commented that i didn't think it was sweet, and actually that's a horrible thing to put in a child's mind. the post never directly mentioned islam and neither did i, but everyone who's been replying to me is proselytizing islam, so. anyway, these are the points that have been thrown at me so far:

it's not wrong because both genders are forced apart from each other

in response to me saying it still enforces an extreme divide between genders and encourages them to see each other as opposites rather than equals: the separation is necessary to prevent rape

there is no rape in islam because of the separation between men and women, rape only occurs in western society because men and women are not separated (...because apparently we cannot expect men to not rape women unless they're physically kept away from them at all times)

rape does not happen between family members, it's just not a real thing, ever (incest doesn't exist?)

if you're interested in a girl you should marry her immediately, because dating leads to cheating

men and women cannot be just friends because "islam and science and psychology says so." one guy said it's because "women can't talk about cars and sports"

(i also got called a simp for saying i have female friends. can't make this shit up)

in response to me pointing out that what the girl is saying implies that she won't have any say in who her husband is: arranged marriages are better because they always work out and unlike western marriages, they never end in divorce! (i'll give you one guess why that is.)

similarly, single parent families and suicide are solely western problems

men and women are NOT equal

i need to shut up and respect it because that's their religion

islam cannot be questioned because islam says islam is true

and that's not including all the personal insults and threats i've received, in just a few days.

i will say this is one of the least challenging "debates" i've ever had, in the sense that almost no point brought against me has any logical foundation and is easily refutable. but it's one of the most frustrating because the problem is that they won't hear me at all, because islam teaches its followers to never consider anything else. it teaches them to accept exactly what they are spoon-fed as the ultimate truth. and this is by no means a problem exclusive to islam, but islam does this kind of control better than any other religion i know. people raised into islam are not taught to think in any logical terms - in fact, they're deliberately taught to avoid thinking logically. logical fallacies are the rule. so not only can they barely form a coherent argument in favour of their beliefs, but they have absolutely no clue how illogical they sound sometimes. when i point out a lapse in logic in something they've said, the response i get is "no, that's true because islam says it's true." no other explanation required. at least, i've sometimes heard people of other religions attempt to use logic or science to prove their beliefs, but with the muslims in these comments, those are unnecessary things to be absolutely avoided - it's like they don't even understand why i'd bother to use them. you can't use logic to get through to them because they've been taught to avoid logic and cling to the mantra of islam-is-true-because-islam-says-so.

#trying not to sound like a bitter atheist in this post #i mean i'm not an atheist lmao #but it's very hard to speak critically against islam without feeling like an asshole #because of the leftist climate that condemns criticizing islam #for the record and i speak the same way against christianity #all ideologies must be subject to criticism #ex muslim #ex islam #ex christian #antitheism #antitheist #anti religion #op

[kemetic-dreams]

What made Arabisation so successful in the Levant and North Africa, whereas it failed in Iran, India, and the Caucasus?

Arabisation's success in the Levant and North Africa can be attributed to various historical, cultural, and geopolitical factors. The Arab invaders in these regions established centralized rule, which facilitated the spread of Arabic language and culture, I$|@m forced to them and played a crucial role as a unifying force, encouraging adoption of Arabic for religious purposes.

On the other hand, in regions like Iran, India, and the Caucasus, Arabisation faced challenges due to pre-existing rich and established civilizations with their own distinct languages and cultures, which was so much greater than arabs culture, In these areas, the local populations were more resistant to adopting Arabic, and their societies were not as readily assimilated into the Arab-dominated political structures.

in Iran, the Persian language had deep-rooted cultural significance, and Persian dynasties maintained their own identity and resisted Arabisation. In India, the vast and diverse society made it challenging for Arabic to become the dominant language. The Caucasus, with its diverse linguistic landscape and mountainous terrain, also hindered widespread Arabisation.

**Resistance and Nationalism**: In places like Iran, there was a strong sense of Persian identity and nationalism till today that resisted Arabisation. Persian language and culture have a long-standing and deeply rooted history that predates Abrahamic religions and the Arab conquests. The same applies to India, where there is a rich tapestry of local languages and cultures, and the Caucasus, where local nationalisms played a role in resisting Arabisation.

the success of Arabisation in the Levant and North Africa was facilitated by factors like centralized rule, religious influence, and a more receptive environment, whereas in Iran, India, and the Caucasus, the pre-existing cultural and linguistic diversity posed significant barriers to its adoption.

#kemetic dreams #islam #islamic jihad #colonization #north africa #levant #western asia #central asia #persian #brownskin #ancient persia #persistence #affirm and persist #persimmon #iran #india #bharat #critical role #african culture #asian culture #asians #asian conquest #brown skin #Arab

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"We have to stop saying, well, we should not insult a great religion. First of all, there are no great religions; they're all stupid and dangerous. And we should insult them, and we should be able to insult whatever we want. That is what free speech is like." -- Bill Maher

#Bill Maher #Charlie Hebdo #criticism of islam #criticism of religion #free speech #Islam #freedom of speech #blasphemy #blasphemy laws #religion #religion is a mental illness

[vouam]

This beautiful woman shared a picture of her pregnant belly.

She received THOUSANDS of quotes and replies from Muslim men telling her its inappropriate, will arouse ‘creeps on the website’ (self report tbh), women shouldn’t post themselves on social media, her husband is a dayooth (means lacking ‘protective jealousy’) and more.

(Credit to femcelgirlfren on twitter for these screenshots)

Is this how Muslim men want Muslim women to live? Sheltered from the world and can’t even share the beauty of pregnancy? The sexualisation of everything Muslim women do is disgusting and perverted.

I hope she has a peaceful and healthy pregnancy, thousands of hate messages from her own community calling her a slut can’t be good for her mind & body.

#radblr #radical feminism #radical feminist safe #gender critical #radical feminist community #radical feminists do interact #gender abolition #terfsafe #atheism #terfblr #misogyny #islam #feminism #muslim

[maaruin]

can you explain the bin laden thing and answer the questions you posted that should be "attached" to the letter? im kind of ashamed to admit how little i know about bin laden, but i was also only born in 2001... id appreciate some context on why people are into his letter, why leftists are latching onto it, and how this connects to what's going on in gaza. i'll read as much as you wanna write. thanks so much.

in reference to my previous post Yes, I can do that. Thank you for the ask. And I can assure you, many people who lived through 9/11 as adults don't really understand Bin Laden's motivations all that well either. If you want to read the letter yourself, you can find it here on WikiSource.

First for the questions: 1. Are bin Laden’s descriptions of political events and relations in this letter accurate? What could he have misunderstood? What could he be lying about?

When bin Laden lays out his reasons for attacking America, he says America attacked first and then claims that America is responsible for basically every bad thing that his happening to Muslims (in his view) anywhere. So America is not only responsible for its interventions in the Middle East and military aid to Israel, but also for the Russian suppression of the Chechnyan attempt at independence, Indian control of Kashmir, the Philippine government fighting Islamist rebels, and governments in the Islamic world not implementing Sharia. He implies hostility towards Islam is the reason for America's actions, for example, he thinks American soldiers in Saudi-Arabia were stationed there so that the mere presence of non-Muslims in the country with Islams most holy sites will humiliate Muslims. (When in fact they were stationed there in 1991 at the request of the Saudi government to protect it against a possible invasion from Iraq after Iraq had already invaded Kuwait.) This is classical conspiracy-theory-thinking: Assuming that behind all the bad things that happen to your group there must be a plan by someone (often a particular group) to hurt your group and that the motivation is hatred towards you. You will find bin Laden parroting conspiracy theorist talking points in the later sections of the letter as well, for example that America created AIDS, or that Jews are secretly controlling American politicians. The problem with conspiracy theories is very simple: they tend to be wrong. For example, if you want to explain the actions of the Russian military in Chechnya around 2000, don't look at America, look at Putin's ruling ideology. If you want to explain why Muslim governments don't implement Sharia, think about if it would help or hurt their ability to stay in power. Many problems all around the world start from local conditions, not because there is an evil mastermind behind them. I don't think bin Laden is lying very much in this letter, except maybe to himself. He is just falling to his own pattern matching bias that wants to ascribe all bad thing that happen to Muslims to a single cause - America. (Probably because that would mean if you could just defeat America, all the problems in the Islamic world would go away.) 2. Are bin Laden’s goals outlined in the letter worthwhile? Should Americans implement his suggestions? The latter has bin Laden's requests for Americans. Some are goals that an American may support as well, like stop military interventions in the Islamic world or ending support for countries that oppress Muslims. Though even there he sees American support where there wasn't really support, like the Russian operation in Chechnya. The US government did in fact condemn Russian actions. So this goal is not worthwhile because it is based on false assumptions about reality - the conspiracy theory about American Influence listed above. The hugest chunk of requests however is the demand for America to convert to Islam, end the separation of religion and state, and adopt social conservative policies (ban alcohol, ban sex work, ban homosexuality, ban interest on loans, stop employing women in service industry jobs where they serve man, etc - but he also mentiones that he wants the US to sign the Kyoto protocol, so it isn't 100% identical to what US conservatives want). Arguments for or against social conservatism would make this post far too long, but I doubt many left leaning Americans would be on board for these policies. Right leaning Americans might support some of these policies, but they would certainly not want America to make Islam the state religion.

3. Were the 9/11 attacks and similar operations by al-Qaeda an effective way to achieve his goals? Did the terrorist attack on American civilians lead to Americans wanting to convert to Islam - NO, it made Americans hate Islam. Did it make America withdraw from Islamic countries - NO, it made America invade Afghanistan and Iraq. I have read a bit of context on Bin Laden's goals in the past. During the Lebanese Civil War, a number of US soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing (iirc) and after that the US withdrew its soldiers. Bin Laden misjudged this and thought that an even larger attack on American civilians within the borders of the US would have the same effect on a larger scale. He was wrong and caused the opposite reaction. Killing American troops that are deployed in/are occupying another country does make Americans sour on the war if you can keep it up over time. But attacking civilians, especially in their home country, tends to increases the will to fight in the West (with few exception - spain pulled out its troops from Iraq after a terrorist attack on trains in Madrid). In the last decade the Taliban managed to make the US retreat and took over Afghanistan again by limiting their attacks these way, constantly killing US soldiers and their allies, but leaving civilians in America alone. The Islamic State on the other hand got the whole world into uniting against it by its display of cruelties like the beheading of journalists and aid workers and by its terrorist attacks in France and other countries. So even within his own values Bin Laden made the wrong choice when he initiated the 9/11 attacks. Context on why the letter may have had a sudden spike in popularity recently

The more immediate reason is that the letter talks quite a bit about American support for Israeli oppression of Palestinians. And that is one of the statements in the letter that are based at least somewhat in truth - yes, Israel does oppress Palestinians and yes, the US government generally supports Israel. It is somewhat doubtful if America withdrawing support would make Israel oppress Palestinians less. (In fact, it might make Israel more aggressive because it felt more threatened, but that also isn't for certain.) This is, I suppose, the reason why people ended up reading the letter. But the reason for them saying things like "I now realize he was right" is a specific kind of leftist gullibility/refusal to think. Leftists are opposed to oppression. They see that the United States is the most powerful country in the world and is involved, directly and indirectly, in a number of cases in which people are oppressed around the world. And then they think "If oppression is bad and the US oppresses people, people who fight against the US must be good." But the world of international politics cannot just be divided into good and evil. There are in fact things like better and worse. Bin Laden's letter overestimates the influence the US has and that its ability to change things, his vision for the world is worse than the world looks under US hegemony, and the means he chose to pursue his goals did not even help him achieve these goals - instead it just caused a number of bloody wars that got many Muslims (including himself) killed.

And I just wish leftists would think such things (statements like "Bin Laden was right") through. This isn't the first time. During the protests of 2020 after the murder of George Floyd the statement "Abolish the Police" gained tractions. Probably brought into the protest by some anarchists, other leftists thought "well, if the police oppresses people, abolishing it is the obvious solution". Without considering a) how much support by less ideologically committed people it cost them (it was an extremely unrealistic goal) and b) the risk of institutions arising in the vacuum left by the police could be worse (would private security beholden to cooperations be better than the police?, would a mafia that demanded protection money from you be better than the police?). And right now with Gaza we see the same thing: Does calling the 7/10 massacres "decolonization" make people likely to support decolonization? - NO Does Hamas have a shot at conquering Israel and restoring a Palestine "from river to sea" and did the attack further this goal? - NO If Hamas controlled all of current Israel, would the situation be better for the people who live there or would return there, even if you only consider Palestinians ? - DOUBTFUL

I think some leftists latch on to this letter because they have the same conspiracy-theory-thinking bin Laden had and saying "bin Laden was right" sounds really really radical and that makes them feel good. Their politics are very emotion driven with insufficient though put into it. Well, I hope my long post helped to a better understanding.

#long post #asks answered #history #osama bin laden #letter to america #conspiracy theories #thinking mistakes #terrorism #islamism #imperialism #united states #leftism #politics #critical thinking #reason #emotion driven politics #'abolish the police' and other stupid slogans #israel #palestine #israel palestine conflict #israel hamas war

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

uh oh I want to say something controversial

#it is not bad for me as a Christian to resonate with Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah in that way #just like it's not wrong for an islamic or jewish person to resonate with say catholic imagery wrt to their own beliefs #idek what the original context behind Hallelujah was bc Google isn't giving me anything relevant but I've seen people #criticizing how it's used at Christmas and made to mean something it wasn't intended to. but I think that it's possible #to respect a thing's original context while also being able to engage with it within our own #idk it's only relevant rn bc I'm thinking about hum hallelujah again and my Christian context for the WORD 'hallelujah' #is probably why I find the hope in it so easily #anyway. #delete later probably

[lesorus]

my brother said that any other man would have killed their sister for sneaking out without the hijab. He's literally acting like he did me a favor by almost making me loose my tuition and go through the most traumatic month of my life over a fucking headscarf.

#ex muslim #hijab #forced hijab #islam #vent ig #radfem #radblr #radical feminists do interact #radical feminists please touch #radical feminism #gender critical #middle east #fuck islam

[archtroop]

'Scary' Islam Is Recruiting Woke 'Useful Idiots' - Yasmine Mohammed (4K...

Yasmine Mohammed is an ex-Muslim who speaks out against the extreme religion, and how woke useful idiots are being used against us. She was forced to marry an al-Qaeda terrorist, but has since escaped and now speaks out with incredible bravery. #heretics​ #islamist​ #usefulidiots​

Follow her on X:    / yasmohammedxx  ​

Subscribe to her channel: @YasmineMohammedxx​

More info:

Through her initiative Free Hearts, Free Minds, she supports closeted ex-Muslims from Muslim-majority countries and co-ordinates an online campaign called #NoHijabDay​ against World Hijab Day. She also has a website and hosts an online series on YouTube called Forgotten Feminists.

Mohammed has been interviewed by Sam Harris, Seth Andrews, and several news outlets from multiple countries, and in 2019 self-published the book Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam.

Chapters:

0:00​ Highlights

1:30​ % of Scary Muslims

5:30​ Why Worse Than Other Religions

8:30​ Is There Something About the Text?

11:30​ Is Islamophobia Racist?

14:05​ Can you be an atheist Muslim?

16:30​ Yasmine’s Past - What Was I Thinking?

19:10​ What Did Allah Look Like in Your Mind?

21:30​ Yasmine’s Bravery (Insane!)

23:30​ Salman Rushdie Said This

25:20​ Yasmine’s Incredible Story

31:30​ Marrying an al-Qaeda terrorist

35:30​ Covering Herself in Black

38:30​ The Beatings She Took

43:30​ The Ideology Ruins Love

46:00​ Where Islamist Palestine Turned

49:30​ Palestine Like ISIS? Using Western Students

52:30​ Strippers for Gaza / Useful Idiots

55:30​ The Plot to Take Over The West

58:30​ Katharine Birbalsingh & Michaela School

1:00:30​ Maajid Nawaz

1:04:10​ A Heretic Yasmine Admires

#radical islam #woke culture #the lie of Islamophobia #critical thinking #terrorism #the 100 year plan #which sounds a LIT like the Third Reich #“you are looking for the Nazis in all the wrong places” WE TOLD YOU SO FOR YEARS NOW #the muslim brotherhood #jihad #JihaNazism #fundamentalist ideology #Yasmine Mohammed #interview #Youtube