Summary
70 decapitated bodies were found in a Protestant church in Kasanga, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), reportedly the work of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an Islamist group linked to ISIS.
The victims were believed to have been taken hostage before being executed.
Authorities are investigating, and international Christian organizations have condemned the attack.
The DRC has faced decades of conflict, with violence surging due to armed groups like ADF and M23.
Much like Christian behavior has been modified over the centuries due to constraints from society, I think Muslim behavior has been modified in many nations. There is enough open to interpretation in holy books that you can still be “devoted” and not push for enforcement. Even some majority-Muslim countries that have strict rules for Muslims do not enforce the same rules on people of other faiths.
So while I appreciate that the “Islamophobia” accusation doesn’t hold water, I think you cast too wide a net even on devout Muslims.
It may be due to different understanding of levels of devotion. My personal cut-off is where you put your religion ahead of society and the self fulfillment of others.
For example, academic work shows that the majority of Muslims in Wien places Islam above Austrian law. The Muslim community also has the highest fertility rate. Meaning that using public funds that meant to support childbearing, the Muslim community will overgrow the natives and eventually force Islam on them. This is not Islamophobia, this the outcome of the current trends to our best of our knowledge.
It becomes Islamophobia when you lay the blame on personal Humans that happen to be Muslims. As it’s not 100% of Muslims, but around 55-75% (depends on the work).
This ( the placing of Islam above national-law ) is why you can’t give citizenship to anybody who holds that ANY regime outrank’s the country, be it some other country’s, or some religion’s.
EITHER they accept that the law of the land is THE law of the land,
XOR they aren’t citizens.
Failure to understand & accept that is … functionally … treason, now.
NO ideology has the “right” to highjack our countries.
We either enforce that, XOR we accommodate our own future-decapitations. ( of our countries )
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First generation of immigrants are usually cool people.
Problem starts when the second doesn’t integrate well into society and tries hard to connect with their other cultural background. When that other background is Islam, they become extremists Muslims.
I know that Wien has a long history with Turkish invasion, but you appear to be skirting the line for Islamophobia or just general Xenophobia. I’d rather not have you defending my comments here, as I think it muddies the water.
it literally is their Quran’s law that they have to stone-to-death any person who left Islam, & won’t return to it in 3 days.
As Germany has noticed, immigrants from specific Muslim countries are … iirc … 100,000x as likely as normal Germans to gang-rape.
It was that kind of statistic that caused me to understand that having the same penalty for the same crime,
when specific subcultures are MASSIVELY more-likely to commit specific crimes, is incompetence/insanity:
the correction for the crime needs to be calibrated both to the crime AND to the probability-of-committing-it.
Notice that I’m not saying that Muslims are the only religion which has culture-specific crimes…
there was a book, & movie, some years ago, about the Catholic molestation-by-priests regime, where they protected the molesters…
an insight given in that work ( it was the Boston Globe who cracked the actual case, iirc ) is that when celibacy is required of people who never grew-up-in-real-relationship, it retards their growing-up, & significantly-increases their pedophelia…
I don’t care what the “religion” or “ideology” or “prejudice” in-question is!
IF a specific demographic is massively-more-likely to be committing any specific kind of crime, THEN the deterrent/correction has to be jacked to counterbalance that, adaptively.
IF that means that Republican Electorates get massively-higher sentencing for corruption, then So Be It, see?
Make the correction correct the societal-problems that different cultures create, & no pretending that no culture creates any problems, no matter how “politically incorrect” actual-fact is, nowadays, on either side of the political spectrum.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-8-2015-003081_EN.html for evidence that I’m not just pushing racism, but instead identifying actual-fact/actual-behavior.
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