{"id":1583,"date":"2015-11-23T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=1583"},"modified":"2015-11-22T23:44:47","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T04:44:47","slug":"islamic-terrorism-islamism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2015\/11\/islamic-terrorism-islamism\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s time to stop tiptoeing around Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A few days ago, Friendly Atheist<\/em> had a guest post<\/a> by Alan Bao<\/strong> about what we can learn from the Paris attacks “without ignoring the elephant in the room”.<\/p>\n

It was a drawing strip explanation of the Paris attacks<\/a><\/strong>, which I thought was fine, until I ran into this bit<\/a> of the strip:<\/p>\n


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It defines Islamism as a “political ideology that seeks to impose its interpretation of Islam upon government and society”. Last I checked imposing the faith onto others is embedded in Islam<\/a><\/strong> \u2014and other religions as well\u2014.<\/p>\n

So defining Muslims as people who “seek to live according to their faith” makes nothing for all the peaceful and moderate Muslims out there, who may be facing discrimination for what their coreligionists have done.<\/p>\n

This “Islamism” term is just religious privilege<\/a><\/strong> and it plays into the hands of fundamentalists. By now, we should know better and be brave enough to acknowledge that Islam has dangerous teachings<\/strong>, and that a good amount of suffering is directly derived from its doctrine. <\/p>\n

I’m sorry, I won’t tiptoe around Islam<\/strong> or any other superstition with a sacred book that literally<\/em> advocates for the suffering of others, I won’t give any irrational beliefs special treatment \u2014 that’s religious privilege, and those who enable it have a share of responsability in the state of affairs today.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m sorry, I won\u2019t tiptoe around Islam or any other superstition with a sacred book that literally advocates for the suffering of others, I won\u2019t give any irrational beliefs special treatment \u2014 that\u2019s religious privilege, and those who endulge it have a share of responsability in the state of affairs today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":1582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,9,291],"tags":[110,138],"class_list":["post-1583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-philosophy","category-secularism","category-skepticism-and-science","tag-islam","tag-religious-privilege"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}