• raccoona_nongrata@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Agreed, but also importantly; one doesn’t need to support Islam as an ideology, or Judaism (the religion) in order to side with muslims who are suffering or israelis who are suffering etc. It’s very much contextual and about which groups have power in a given context.

    I am, philosophically, very opposed to all the Abrahamic religions, but I will still argue for the rights and humane treatment of muslims in countries where they are a minority under the thumb of other groups and vice versa. For example, in the US there is an evangelical christian hegemony, which leads to frequent struggle with islamophobia, but also it is vice versa for Islamic majority countries.

    So depending on the context, I might argue the cause of one or the other in regards to their rights to live and worship without oppression, because none of it is worth degrading people’s humanity or right to live a peaceful life even though we frequently see the ideologies themselves serve as catalysts for systems of oppression.