Lawlight said:
A refusal to assimilate and accept the western culture. |
All the Abrhamic religions if taken literally are barbaric and ass backwards. They were written hundreds of years ago for a tribal desert culture, what can you expect.
Christainity is basically just like a dog that's been neutered and had its teeth removed, because its been forced to liberalize to exist in a Western liberal society.
Unfortunately Islam is not in the same boat and reformation of religion is painfully slow because religious conservatives are always a royal pain in the ass. Religious types always think their POV is infalliable and perfect because some book written 2000 years and editing 5959595 times informs their entire world view.
Thankfully though most people in actual practice are not so naive or willing to at least subconciously kind of ignore the dumber/nuttier parts of religion, and that's true of the vast majority of Muslims (same goes for Christians and Jews).
Unfortunately it only takes a fraction of a percentage of people to cause incredible damage. And that's where we have problems, the Middle East has been devastated socially and ravaged economically over the last 30-40 years that there's no stability there which allows pockets for religious extremists to thrive.
