Yeah, great anticipation for the undoubtedly forward-looking xennial Mojtaba Khamenei in Iran.

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mystraline 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Gotta really "love" the fact that extremist Islamic country treats a whole host of people horribly (women, gays, non-muslims).

But if you say anything about it, you're an islamophobe.

Same way if you criticize Israel's actions, youre lambasted as a jew-hater. But at least now thats starting to change.

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krsw 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Gotta really "love" the fact that bigots and xenophobes treat a whole host of religions and regions horribly.

To them Islamic or Arab is monoculture.

Same way all countries in the Mid East are all barbaric and savage. But at least now thats starting to change.

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butlike 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Gotta really "love" the fact that "bigots and xenophobes" is its own overly-broad brush

	▲	TurdF3rguson 19 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, like how did the guy that doesn't want women and gays to be oppressed become the bigot / xenophobe?

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mystraline 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I am OK with you personally practicing a religion and its rules.

I am NOT OK with you forcing me to follow some religion's rules.

And yes, I will look down on countries whom choose to force a specific religion on everyone. We can look in our own backyard, with multiple abortion bans, which lead to many women dying due to miscarriage and needing abortion. Was illegal (cause of baby Jesus, spit) so women died.

Or we can look at Saudi Arabia school fire in 2002 where the girls didn't have headdresses and were shoved back in. They died due to radical Islamic bullshit. Or the idea of "Religious police".

Religion and government should never mix. Not ever. Our founding fathers and Marx were all right about that.

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krapp 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Because people in the former group don't criticize those countries, they criticize Islam, and tend to categorize all Muslims (specifically Muslim immigrants) as ontologically evil.

Meanwhile people in the latter group tend to be very specific that their criticism is of a state and its policies, rather than the religion of Judaism or Jews in general, even though their efforts tend to fall on deaf ears.

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		We hate the demagogue for being a demagogue and their followers for being stupid.
	▲	mystraline 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Indeed, it both feels like the same type of pro-theocratic propaganda. Its a way to disingenuously claim "you hate everyone of our group", when thats demonstrably not true. You likely hate the actions a country masquerading as the group inflicts against others. My disdain is for all theocratic countries. I dont particularly care for any religion that takes over a government. And I do include the USA in that, as theocratic fundamentalist christanity. Ive done so since changing the pledge of allegience and adding "in god we trust" on the currency.