{"id":1896,"date":"2015-12-18T13:30:15","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T18:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2015-12-18T13:30:15","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T18:30:15","slug":"we-are-not-all-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/2015\/12\/18\/we-are-not-all-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are NOT All Muslims!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/files\/2015\/12\/1928771_10153186452566857_8153782212567921494_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1897\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/files\/2015\/12\/1928771_10153186452566857_8153782212567921494_n-300x275.jpg\" alt=\"1928771_10153186452566857_8153782212567921494_n\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/files\/2015\/12\/1928771_10153186452566857_8153782212567921494_n-300x275.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/files\/2015\/12\/1928771_10153186452566857_8153782212567921494_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Yesterday, documentary filmmaker Michael Moore created a new campaign to fight back against \u201cThe Donald.\u201d Donald Trump (and pretty much the entire Republican Party) has been waging war on Muslims. Trump, however, went a little over the top (as he often does) by calling for the expulsion and restriction of all Muslims from the United States of America. Even his fellow Republican have called this a step to far despite many of them stepping just a half step short of these very remarks.<\/p>\n<p>This is an important issue because I think it is often confused in the media and by the general public. There is a huge difference between what Trump and the Republicans are saying and calling for and what atheists are saying and calling for. The Trump camp hates all Muslims because they see all Muslims as potential threat because the terrorist organization of ISIS are all Muslims and many terrorist attacks around the world have be perpetrated by Muslim fundamentalist who have justified their actions with their holy book. What they fail to understand is that most Muslims are like most Christians and Jews who pick and choose what parts of their holy books they want to follow. Most Muslims, like most Christians and Jews, don\u2019t follow the more violent aspects of their holy books.<\/p>\n<p>Recent, some Dutch YouTubers went on the street and started reading some particularly horrible verses from the Koran and asking passersby what they thought of them. Of course the people on the street were outraged. The Koran is such a horribly violent holy book\u2026 except it wasn\u2019t the Koran. The YouTubers secretly replaced the Koran with the Bible. The verses they were reading were actually Biblical verses.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Holy Quran Experiment\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zEnWw_lH4tQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe fact of the matter is that the Bible is way more violent and horrific than the Koran. Of course in fairness, the Bible is a longer book. Still, the fact remains that all of the Abrahamic holy books are horribly violent.<\/p>\n<p>As an atheist, I am very critical of the Koran\u2026 and the Bible\u2026 and the Torah. But I don\u2019t blame all Muslims for what is written in their holy book. I am critical of Muslims who actually follow the horrible things prescribed in their holy book \u2013 just as I am with Christians and Jews who do the same. My point here is that it is okay to be critical of Islam and to be critical of the actions of Muslim fundamentalists. This is different from Trump and the Republican Party\u2019s fear and hate of all Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Moore has started a new campaign asking people to pose with signs that say, \u201cWe Are All Muslims\u201d in support and solidarity with Muslims who face the fear and hate of the political Right. I get it, but I am not on board. I have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/staks-rosch\/syrian-refugees-are-welco_b_8629314.html\" target=\"_blank\">argued strongly that America should take in Syrian refugees<\/a> (who are mostly Muslims) and I support equal rights (including the right to worship their beliefs) of Muslims. But I am most certainly NOT a Muslim. That is a step too far for me.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder, why Michael Moore and others haven\u2019t created a campaign of solidarity with atheists who are also harassed and demonized in this country and around the world. Atheist bloggers are beaten, lashed, and murdered in many countries that are predominantly Muslim. Where are the, \u201cWe Are All Atheists\u201d signs? It isn\u2019t like the Right in this country love us. No, hating atheists is one thing that fundamentalist Christians and fundamentalist Muslims both agree on.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, a sign saying that \u201cWe Are All Atheists\u201d actually makes more sense because as a matter of fact, we actually are all atheists in relation to some deity or another. How many Christians believe in Zeus? How many Muslims believe in Thor?<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, I took the liberty of helping Michael with this campaign:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/files\/2015\/12\/moore-atheists.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1898\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/files\/2015\/12\/moore-atheists.jpg\" alt=\"moore-atheists\" width=\"528\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/files\/2015\/12\/moore-atheists.jpg 528w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/files\/2015\/12\/moore-atheists-300x261.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/2015\/12\/08\/refuting-refugee-mm-meme\/\" target=\"_blank\">Refuting Refugee M&amp;M Meme<\/a> (skepticink.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/staks-rosch\/syrian-refugees-are-welco_b_8629314.html\" target=\"_blank\">Syrian Refugees Are Welcome by This Godless Atheist<\/a> (huffingtonpost.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/2015\/11\/09\/ted-cruzs-not-so-surprising-statement-about-atheists\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ted Cruz\u2019s Not So Surprising Statement About Atheists<\/a> (skepticink.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/2015\/12\/14\/atheist-winter-greeting-card-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">Atheist Winter Greeting Card \u2013 2015<\/a> (skepticink.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, documentary filmmaker Michael Moore created a new campaign to fight back against \u201cThe Donald.\u201d Donald Trump (and pretty much&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[717,5,758,12,205],"tags":[1158,38,1051,1136,1160,1159],"class_list":["post-1896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianlove","category-atheism-2","category-featured","category-islam","category-memes","tag-weareallmuslims","tag-atheism","tag-islam","tag-islamophobia","tag-michael-moore","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}