cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5419055
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this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2023
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I agree with you that all religions are shit, but I think it's important and we should be able to point out when a specific religion is fucking us up.
In Berlin there has been a lot of homophobic attacks coming from the muslim community, especially in that area where there are a lot of them.
Maybe you were unware of that, but I think its very very likely that the attackers were muslims.
That doesn't mean that Christianity is better, nor any other religion, but do we really need to be pointing out the homophobia in the muslim religion and ALWAYS followed by and Christianity is also shitty? There are posts criticizing the homophobic and transphobic acts that Christians have been doing lately too.
Okay but give me one theocratic Christian country that openly kills people for being gay. We're not going to abolish bigotry in the world without admitting that the Middle East and Islam is especially fucked up when it comes to LGBT rights
https://www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps/panic_defense_bans
Thanks lol, this is the laugh I needed today
That's not what a theocracy is. Plenty of politicians around the world use religion to gain support from the public. Some of the only surviving theocracies exist only in the Middle East.
Religion is a useful tool for Putin, but he isn't subservient to any religious leader.
The current state of India with BJP goverment.
yes but if you read the article linked in the reddit theread anouther comment mentioned this was in Berlin-Neukölln, which is predominantly muslim and known to have issues with (esp. young men/boys) radicals opposing queer people.
I totally agree that christians (or any religion/religion-like structure) can be and in the case of Christianity often is just as bad.
I want to make it clear that I do not think that it is generally significantly more likely for the islam faith to cause queerphobia than it would be for any other one. It is just that in this particular region (Berlin-Neukölln) and demographic (young men) that would be the most likely perputrators.
In Berlin it's basically given the perpetrators were Muslims.