Attn: Special Announcement
I'd like to share something with all of you that I was shown in my US Government class today. For the sake of open discussion, this post has been unlocked.
I'd like for you to take 10 minutes and watch this video. Watch the whole thing, please.
( And my thoughts )
I'd like for you to take 10 minutes and watch this video. Watch the whole thing, please.
Click to view( And my thoughts )
All religions, cultures, and even countries continuously wax and wane. Empires fall, new ones are formed. That is how it has always been. Being terrified of a changing status quo for no logical reason other than "they're not us" is just ridiculous, because the status quo IS for things to change. And regardless of anyone's opinion of religion, even if some sects of Islam have serious and bad issues... so do sects of Christianity--even modern Christianity. And Catholicism has used some very bloody tactics to spread itself, including ones you might label as "terrorism." SHOCK. This does not and should not negate the fact that Islam has its loving, peaceful, humanitarian followers who do great good in its name. Just like Christianity has had, and just like any other religion.
Not to mention the ridiculous suggestion that WE SHOULD BE BREEDING. Overpopulation is a HUGE PROBLEM that is not being tackled aggressively enough. These people need to stop acting like "culture" (which, given the focus of the video, I highly suspect is supposed to mean "white Christians from Europe") is more important than SURVIVING ON THE LONG-TERM.
As you can tell, it pushed a few angry buttons. I am not a fan of "us vs. them" ideology, because regular people always get hurt when you start making a group a faceless, hostile hivemind rather than a collection of individuals with a shared commonality. The vast, vast, vast majority of Muslims are just living their lives in varying states of religious visibility. They're no more "attacking culture" by existing than the Jewish or the Buddhists or the Wiccans.
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