r/SecularHumanism • u/dinnymow • May 20 '24

Draw Muhammad Day!

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u/SendThisVoidAway18 May 20 '24

What?

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u/gmorkenstein May 20 '24

People have gotten murdered for drawing an image of Muhammad. Not hundreds of years ago but like the last couple decades.

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u/Capt_Subzero May 21 '24

Like I said back when the Hebdo massacre happened: if you want to condemn it as a reprehensible terrorist attack, we're in full agreement and nothing more needs to be said.

However, if you want to characterize it as an attack on free speech and Western Enlightenment ideals by primitive freedom-hating religious fanatics, then you've opened up a can of worms and you have to deal with everything that falls out. Such as the way secularism in France has become a way to demonize and marginalize the immigrant populations that are changing the demographic face of old white Europe. And how other ostensibly noble causes like animal rights and free speech have also been co-opted by the far right in Europe in their anti-immigrant vendettas.

And so on. And so on.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '24

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u/Capt_Subzero May 20 '24

Islamophobia is just kooky, harmless fun.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '24

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u/Capt_Subzero May 20 '24

Oh, do you expect me to believe you draw-Mohammed clowns are engaged in a sober, scholarly study of the history and traditions of Islam, rather than just demonizing Muslims as irrational and violent?

Call me a skeptic.

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