People who watch volleyball should be arrested. Its criminally boring.

You're either a troll or someone who has a very odd and wrong sense of reality and what constitutes abuse, and what is awesome.

are you a cat?

Iranian propaganda machine on Jezebel?? Come on you guys aren't North Korea, don't you have Bahai's and Christians and women to persecute? Maybe stare angrily at a map of israel or saudi arabia?

We have a better record on gay rights than pretty much everywhere else except western Europe. You're acting like there IS a beacon of gay rights somewhere, even the most progressive places in Europe have only been getting with the program in the last 50 years or so if that.

Your first point, is completely and utterly wrong wrong. There are many Muslim countries that aren't totalitarian dictatorships, but rights are still denied to gays, and free speech is limited. Not to mention terrorists are still recruited from these countries. Islam and Middle Eastern culture are homophobic,…

Terrorism is in places with high Muslim populations because there is a problem with Islam as a religion in the modern world, not because of economics. And this just isn't about terrorism its about human rights too. Some of the wealthiest countries in the Middle East are also the most oppressive and manufacture the…

You know you're partially right in the sense the sense that the west is more secular and thus more open and free as societies go. However, as I stated most "Christian" nations aren't calling for the death of infidels, gays and aren't as extreme as Muslim countries. And of course you neglect how Islam was also just…

Actually, the library of Alexandria was finally destroyed by Muslim conquerors, but in reality most of the knowledge was not lost because of religious extremists but budget cuts

When most of the middle east shares the same language, religion and identifies as "Arab" then it is not a stretch to say that they are more homogenous than a comparative sample, such as the Western world, which speaks many languages has many religions and identifies as all sorts of ethnicities.

Exactly! But what created the environment? Islam! Specifically Wahabism and Salafism doctrines, which control arguably the most important Muslim country (Saudi Arabia is THE wahabist country, as well as the country of origin of many Islamic terrorists) and these ideas are exported throughout the Muslim world…

Probably both...

Its irrelevant to the discussion. Besides, moralizing ancient history is pointless and a waste of time. What matters is what goes on in our global and local communities today, and what we can make happen for the future. History is an excellent learning tool, but only if viewed objectively and in context.

How many Christian theocracies are there exactly?? Oh, just one, the Vaticant. Unless you are talking about historically, which is entirely irrelevant since we are discussing modern nations and not shit that happened hundreds of years ago.

Are you somehow saying that Islamic terrorism is the result of socio-political issues but Christian terrorism isn't?? If so, thats a load of crap. I don't disagree with you're second two points though, my point however is that the Islamic world makes our domestic terrorism seem like a drop in a bucket.

You are aware in almost EVERY Muslim country it is illegal to be gay? And excuse my small error in statistical data, but when you compare that amount to the things done in the name of Islam to this very small number of incidents, the differences of tens or even a hundred is irrelevant. Women gays and minorities are…

Arab/Islamic culture is far more homogeneous than Western culture. And oppression of women is far more ingrained in Islam and Middle Eastern culture (look at Orthodox Judaism) in general than Christianity and Western culture. Yes there are plenty of different cultural differences in the Arab world but when you share…

Being critical of a backwards religion isn't racism, or everyone on kinja would be racist.

Honestly, people especially on this website complain about misogyny and whatnot, but Arabic/Islamic culture is 10x more misogynistic than Western culture. Your sister seems lucky, many of the arab men I have seen do not treat women in a way that would be acceptable to most of us.

Woah if you are really going to go there, Christianity in general is centuries ahead of Islam in general. In most Islamic countries it is extremly illegal to be gay, I'm sure gay people in Tehran would gladly have some Christians picket their funeral if it meant they got to live free and marry. Second how many…