Fei-Hung said:
Used to work for PVE up and down the UK. The simple take here for a lot of which happens across religions is when we do assign something due to religion / race and when we don't. There is an inconsistency.
Black shooter - gang banger
Muslim shooter - Islamist
White shooter - mental health
Take another example: if a Catholic priest grooms kids, is it because he is a Catholic or because he is gay? Or is it because he is a pervert and should be treated as a criminal who happens to be Catholic?
Another example was when I was invited to a Home Office meeting. Someone made a statement that said there is a grooming issue with the Muslim Pakistani Kashmiri community in the north.
So I asked, is it happening because they are Muslim, Pakistani, Kashmiri or in the north or all the above?
At the same time, why was the fact they were part of a drug group being ignored? If you don't look at the source of the issue then you will never be able to get to the bottom of it and there will be never be justice for the victims.
Another example is the likes of ISIS and AlQaeeda. In the Muslim world they are known as Khawarjites. They are not considered Muslim as they are seen to be people who use religion to use violence for political and personal gains. They break serious rules and regulations within the religion. However, the only people who agree they are Muslim and empower them are the group's themselves, their supporters and far right extremists as well as the media and governments who do it for clicks, votes and contracts.
Every religion has made a great contribution to the world as we know it. Everything from hospitals, laws, core science and medicine to food, architecture and entertainment including video games.
We can either focus on the negative and sit here and argue all day or we can get along. You either want cohesion or you don't.
People arguing about forced marriage in Islam let's say, has nothing to do with the religion at all. That is cultural but people are so miseducated to cannot tell the difference or have been brainwashed to believing it is a religious issue.
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It's wrong to blame a religious person's actions based solely on the religion, but it is just as wrong to ignore when religion is clearly complicit.
For example, Catholicism. The Catholic church intentionally shielded pedohiles from liability. Instead of any system of accountability, they moved pedophiles around the country into new positions where they would have access to more children. They continued to advocate practices that would give priests unsupervised access to children, and did nothing to warn anyone. The amount of priests who were accused of child abuse is absolutely staggering. It is too staggering to be a coincidence. Several dioceses have engaged in child abuse so frequently that they have had gone bankrupt from having to pay victims. And those are only the victims who can prove it. Literally billions of dollars worth of child abuse.
The abuse could not have occured without the practices of the Catholic Church, and the leaders willfully ignoring the issue at best and actively supporting it at worst. I'm not saying the Catholic Church is an organization that was specifically designed to carry out acts of child abuse. But, if one wanted to design an organization to accomplish that goal, they could not have created a more effective system.
So, this is not focusing on the negative or just not wanting to get along. It's about accountability. It's about asking the question "Is this because of the religion?" But instead of just asking it as a rhetorical question, we actually need to find an answer. When the answer is yes, action needs to be taken.
