religion-is-a-mental-illness: You know it’s peaceful because they say it is.“Islam is no
religion-is-a-mental-illness: You know it’s peaceful because they say it is.“Islam is not inherently violent,” “hijab is a choice,” “no compulsion in religion,” “jihad is a personal spiritual struggle,” “Taliban aren’t real Islam,” “ISIS aren’t real Islam,” “Islam is a religion of peace.”These are mantras mindlessly echoed in the same way the quran itself is mindlessly regurgitated by people who don’t know what it says. We’re reliably informed both that there are 1.8b Muslims (all of whom insist the other sects aren’t true Muslims) and that you can’t truly understand the quran in anything other than Arabic, yet there are only 300-400m Arabic speakers in the world.“Muslims are not encouraged to learn or to understand what they are reading or reciting; they are celebrated for successfully regurgitating it. There are all sorts of perks and respect given to a hafiz, one who has memorized the Quran. There are no brownie points for understanding it. More often than not, those diligently moaning out the words have no clue what they are saying. The vast majority of Muslims do not understand Arabic.”– Yasmine Mohammed, “Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam”What’s more telling - not to mention, foreboding - is that the exact same mindless parroting has also been adopted by western Intersectionalists who are more than willing to accept these slogans uncritically in the name of cultural sensitivity. -- source link