I don't think anyone on here would condone religious attacks
Also, I'm not against religious people just religion in general. Most people take the good and ignore the sketchy parts.
In the playground the other day I was talking w this other dad for about half hour. He said he'd be married for over a decade and I asked him the secret to a good marriage. He said faith and studying Bible together helped him and his wife (and not casting blame but accepting some responsibility for stuff even if it seemed 100% the other person's fault)
I'm not gonna argue w that and if it helps him so be it.
Even tho I think Islam has more core problems within their scripture in some ways I respect its devotees more than other religions. For example honoring Ramadan is pretty hard-core.
I know I probably come off like a hateful atheist sometimes but I don't want to seem like a bigot. I understand the community building and fear-reducing aspects or religion but because of the nature of jealous-god combined w in and out-groups and the fact that there will always be those who shun/mock religion it does seem like violence will be inevitable
Appreciate the honesty in your post.
I don't think the problem in Islam or Muslim is based on our concept of God or anything like that. Every Muslim know that a mockery or a praised would not increase nor decrease God dignity even for an inch, that's pretty much meaningless for God, we do worship for our own benefit. A God and Prophets are definitely something that very important to Muslim, just like perhaps as important or more important like your daughter means to you, it is a sensitive subject that perhaps as sensitive or more sensitive like the N word means to the African American. Perhaps free-speech would give you the right to call a black American an "N" word in-front of their face, but there is no guarantee some people would take matter to his own hand for such mockery.
If we have dinner together, and you drew a face of the Prophet at the dinner table, I might not snap out and went after you with a fork in my hand, but I will walk-out from the restaurant and consider you to be a rude intolerant simpleton. I don't ask you to respect my faith, that's a silly offer, I ask you to respect the courtesy and leave your disrespect behind because it's unnecessary, we know you have it in you, as perhaps I might also don't respect your world view, but lets grow up and tolerate each other ideological different and enjoy each other as personality. Do we have to have an open battle to unified each of our disagreement until we can have a courtesy to one and another?
And I think Islamophobia kill and harass more Muslim in the West than Muslims extremist did (it's dwarf in comparison), but whenever it happened we just shrug off and continue our life, but whenever a Muslim extremist or radical did something, the whole Muslim and the core tenets of Islam being questioned. For me is like whatever, I'm tired of it.
There were lots of Western people live in Indonesia, a populated Muslim country, can you imagine if we reacted for every Islamophobes acts to the tourist or expats here? But it seems we already figure it out and separated the context perfectly they are pretty much well respected and welcome in hospitality, but
some many people in the west still having a problem to separated who is who and what is what, and lots of people in the West still see Muslim in a biggotic point of view.