I have no issues with hurting the feelings of faux-progressives, especially when they’re supporting the kinds of people that execute people like me.

Because you cannot build a religion of tolerance on a foundation of misogyny, homophobia, transphobia and a plethora of other ills.

Excuses, excuses.

Muhammad raped a 9 year old girl. What more needs to be said?

Her prophet raped a 9 year old girl. That’s all I need to know.

As I said before, Islam is not the only religion that is misogynistic. All organized religions are. To be religious and a feminist at the same time means to ignore all of the misogynistic undertones of your religion. Ignoring misogyny does not make it go away.

Unrelated, but I love your handle :D

And isn’t that the sad truth?

I mentioned nothing about Arabs. I mentioned Muslims. Your ethnicity cannot make your innately more or less feminist, because your ethnicity is not a choice. Your religion however can and definitely does clash with feminism, and it most definitely is a choice*.

This is what a person who loves to pick the good cherries and ignore the rotten ones.

I was with you until the end. I see cherry-picking as harmful, because it allows people to pretend that their religion of choice has no consequences. That their religion of choice is benevolent. And that’s just false.

Believe it or not, there are people that are into it. Keep in mind, of course, that it’s just a fantasy. It does sound so horrible now that the cat’s out of the bag though.

But religion is not a Choose Your Own Adventure, and that is especially true with Islam. The Quran is literally, or so they say, the perfect work of God. You cannot pick what you like about it and ignore what you don’t. You cannot change the fact that your support of a certain religion often means support of hateful,…

The way it see it, his presence can only tarnish her work.

I am not sure where you going with that. Would you mind clarifying?

It might protect children from abuse - even though it’s the parents who are statistically the biggest threat - so I see no harm there.

The amount of cognitive dissonance and cherry-picking required to be one must be off the charts!

It also implies that you can tell who is a rapist because rapists are all creepy, you know? None of them are ever charming and likeable, no sir. It’s not like sociopaths are masters at manipulation. Definitely not. And then there’s the “of course he was a rapist, I knew he was one all along” - implying that his…

I have all the respect for Malala’s bravery and for what she’s done. However, Islam (and every single organized religion) stands in opposition of women’s rights. No amount of cherry picking will ever change that fact.

Islamic feminist - never thought I’d hear that one...