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(463 posts)I'm gay. I dislike Islam a great deal. I have my pretty justified reasons. When I've expressed this, I've been called an Islamaphobe.
I do not tolerate oppression just because, "It's their culture." I find that oddly more bigoted, actually. A kind of, "Well, they don't know any better."
Nope. I'm a liberal. I believe in liberal values for everyone. Women have choice and equality. LGBTers have rights. We all have or should have freedom to believe or not believe as we see fit. Straight men of one religion don't get to punish or beat down anyone who disobeys their dictum.
Islam has trouble with these things. Even many portions of liberal western Islam.
I loathe Christian conservatives. I get to loathe any form of Islam that is similar.
Calling me a name about it doesn't change my mind.
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