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About the only way we’re going to actually have a democracy is if they consistently lose elections. That’s going to mean volunteering, donating, and actually turning out to vote
The difference is that the dominant branches of Islam are Shia and Sunni, and not, say, Nizari Ismaili which would be sufficiently modern and humane.
Saying this categorically without clarifying specific goal is misguided and wrong.
Judging a group of people by one of its members is wrong, it’s the same form of prejudice.
Nothing is wrong in abstract.
While in this specific case if a religion can be genocidal at all, then Islam is more genocidal than Christianity.
Also rather all but one.
In order to prove this you would need a huge sample poll from each religion and it would need to be representative of the size of each flavor. Then and only then could you begin to make that kind of generalized statement.
If I’d want to prove it to you, yes, too bad I don’t.
Then why make the claim as if it were fact?
Because I want that. You seem to be under impression that we must prove something to be right, or in general that we must do things in conversations. No.
You’ve been spending too much time around conservatives.
Quite the opposite, especially regarding the point that I don’t need to prove anything to everybody capable of typing, that was impressed on me by definitely not a conservative.