“God is One: Allah for Muslims, God for Christians” on an Electoral Poster in Agrigento: Religious Messaging and the Question of Secularism in Italian Local Politics
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Some local elections are approaching in Italy and among the various posters I came across I saw the one from the candidate in Agrigento, Carmela Lombardi an Italian woman converted to Islam, with Arabic writing and references to Allah, and I thought about how it is possible to automatically defend all of this in the name of “tolerance”, the state is secular, religion should not even be mentioned, and yet the poster literally says:
God is one: Allah for the Muslim, God for the Christian, but always the same single Creator.
Written both in Italian and in Arabic. This religious quote is not an innocent detail at all.
A person running to enter politics openly uses religious references, wearing the veil and also using the Arabic language.
This is what I find disturbing about political Islam in general: it does not present itself only as a private faith, but as an absolute ruler for the society, morality and legality. It is not simply about personal spirituality, it just forces also about how others should behave, what should be acceptable to say, how society should function.
And the worst part is that many people in the West minimize these signs because they are afraid of appearing intolerant, because if you try to critic this manifest you are probably going to get dismissed with the usual word 'Islamophobia'.
But criticizing a religion does not mean hating the people who follow it, they are two completely different things. We just want to keep our states as secular and not turn them into a religious nation.
I have problems with any religious ideology that claims to enter institutions, influence politics or replace critical thinking with dogma.
The more time we spend pretending not to see the problem, the more religion will enter politics, increasingly influencing all of our lives.
References: https://www.nuovogiornalenazionale.com/carmela-lombardi-porta-allah-su-manifesto-lista-civica-di-agrigento/
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That's very easy, when a Muslim says this "God is One", that's grooming. They will tell you next that Islam is less a distorted worship of God, and Mohammed is the very last prophet of God, while Muslim prophet Isa (aka Jesus) was cool but outdated. They will gladly explain you that the Bible is a wrong book, but, if you criticize the Quran, they will become angry and intimidate you.
They tried to sweetly convert me when I was staying at their hotels, visited their shops, and the formula is simple: "if you believe in God, you are Muslim" - then they smile condescendingly. When you are saying, "wait, the Bahai Faith is the last and most modern "God is One" religion", they frown - Bahais are ones to kill, not to follow.
Baháʼu'lláh - means Glory of God. This is the last prophet of real God - less distorted than Mohammed, and the holy book Kitab-i-Aqdas is actually holy, unlike the Quran. I really recommend following Bahaism if you are a true believer, or you will burn in hell.
Modern Christians and Christian atheists considered to be weaklings who allow anybody to humiliate their heritage and culture. It's considered part of the Christian world decay alongside with the low fertility, widespread homosexuality, etc.
That's a very simple thing. Nobody refuses that there is Russia and there are some % of Russians who want to see their country as an empire controlling other countries. Just the same about Islam: it's a decentralized Arab Caliphate, with the ideological center in the homeland of Islam - the Arabian Peninsula. They spread this imperialist ideology in other Muslim nations, teach them to despise decaying Chirtians, teach them to be traitors of their countries (first you are Muslim, and only then you are Indian); they incite hatred towards compatriots and erase local traditions, etc.
This imperialism is as real as the Russian one. It doesn't make Russia bad or Islam bad - once Germany wanted to be the master too and Britain wanted all the world, right, but it's a dangerous sickness that needs treatment. Moreover, there are Muslim countries fighting against the same plague - the Stans. Hopefully, Iran will join them one day, as Iran and the Stans are related cultures.
And no, not each religion is the same. The only religion that acts as an empire nowadays is Islam.
If it keeps going like this, the future is their, we all have fertility collapsing, even China, on the other hand they make 3-4 children at least per family so allah is happy...
There is a very good quote I always remember "there are no examples in history of a peaceful integration of Islam in other cultures"
Turkish people don't have a high birth rate so Islam doesn't lead to high level of reproduction by itself. Take into account that numerous Kurdish people have a higher birth rate within Turkey, so the actual number for Turkic Turkish people alone is even lower.
Islamists prey on the Western self-hatred caused by the remorse for the colonial era and Nazism in Europe. They also get great support from the US, where people feel the same along with the fact that an anti-colonialist demagogue is an American political tradition developed to weaken its economic competitors in the colonial era - European nations. Then, the USSR used the same soft weapon against the West to weaken Western influence in the developing countries.
Crowds in America believe that Islam is just another oppressed minority because they live on their Moon, 300,000 km from the real world. But generally, the US cultural influence corrupts orthodox Islam, and that's the trend. Because globally young people's understanding of how discriminatory orthodox Muslim tradition is grows.
https://www.reddit.com/r/exmuslim/comments/1tkwf0v/when_muslims_tell_us_theres_no_such_thing_as/
That's how real feminism looks, while what we see as its facade is often misandry of bored Western female consumerists.
And look at this from another angle: while feminists strongly oppose being used against Islam, while American LGBT communities marsh for Gaza.... at the same this time, the hardest thing that can happen to a girl, to a kid, is to be an ex-Muslim. An oppressed global minority who lives in terror, who often tourtured and killed, while mainstream ideologies - feminism and LGBT - don't want to notice them because this issue isn't enough politically left.
I don't really know if US culture can corrupt Islamic believers, but for sure European one can't, and on contrary we are going towards shariah expecially from young people
https://shiawaves.com/english/news/islam/137036-study-finds-young-french-muslims-increasingly-prioritizing-sharia-over-republican-laws/
And yeah, western feminism is a joke, they march for Gaza, they call Islamophobia, while they would end up all in a burqa... At the same time they don't say a word about Iranian women or yazidi ones abused, because those ones can't be used against west