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by ooobit2 2115 days ago
I think your opinion is irrelevant and based in ignorance of Islam and the values that a predominately Islamic society holds for its citizens. These are not easy or often flippant decisions made and/or accepted by people. But part of listening means accepting where you have a right to form opinions, to have them heard, and to feel entitled to them being relevant. This is not listening. This is you asserting a colonialist's supremacy on a culture that does not agree with your ethic. This same line of thinking is what led to the British invasions of Central Asia and Africa, that Indians were barbaric and Brits would bring the education and civil discipline to their land and improve their lives. Well, what good have yours and their Napoleon complexes left?
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cpursley 2115 days ago
> This is you asserting a colonialist's supremacy on a culture

Isn't this the history of Islam (colonization and expansion)? Were the people in those places who got conquered not forced to comply with Islamic law?

I live in former Ottoman Empire territory where slave trade of women and young boys was rampant until the Russian Empire put an end to it.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Me...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_slavery#Ottoman_slave_...

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lostlogin 2115 days ago
Objecting to whipping or stoning to death is me asserting a colonialists supremacy?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Pakistan

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frequentnapper 2115 days ago
Huh? By the same token, India and rest of the world was invaded by Muslims in order to free them of pagan practices and bring them into Islam. This includes Pakistan.
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thefounder 2115 days ago
Muslims(like most of the religions) are not foreign in asserting a colonialist's supremacy on cultures that do not agree with their ethics. Muslims(like all the religions)think they alone are right and the others are wrong...(i.e pagan, unbelivers etc) and seem to be willing to forcefully impose their fairy tales/doctrine.

>> I think your opinion is irrelevant

Even you seem to be a good representation of this kind attitude

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