First of all, I am not a conservative, I am a progressive liberal like yourself. Where we differ is my progressive values do not end at the borders of islamic nations. All the equivalence that you attempt to make between republicans/christians and muslims is merely an attempt to excuse horrific behavior in other societies.
For a moment, let's discuss the human rights abuses against women, gays and non muslims in muslim nations. Let's focus on that and not the idiocy of American chrisitians or republicans, because whatever they do is not an excuse to look the other way at the human rights violations in muslim countries. Is that reasonable?
Do you think it's "just fine" that women are forced to cover themelves head to toe or be punished by men? Do you think it is "just fine" that they cannot drive, vote, or even leave their homes without a man present? If the answer is no, then stop making excuses for it.
As for religion having some special protection in our society (not that that has anything to do with the human rights violations in THEIR countries - which is what I'm talking about), religion and political speech ARE protected EQUALLY by our constitution. There is no special rights for religion to avoid being criticized. yes their right to practice is protected. They do not have a right to not be debunked.
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I need you to focus for a minute, Robert
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- Yup, that's us.
- One word for you: RFRA
- Trying to defeat a stereotype by using a stereotype
- Next your're going to tell me it's a logical fallacy. n/t
- The Right seems to have just discovered the concept of "stereotype".
- Sadly, so true...