You can swear on Lemmy. There's no corporate authority who's going to ban you for saying "shit".

Hormones are a hell of a drug

The whole schtick of such a religion is that the easiest way to have sex is to follow the rules

Muslims all around the world give Islam a bad name. It's just inherent to the religion. Tolerant and liberal minded Muslims basically ignore large parts of the religious dogma. And anyone who doesn't and follows the scripture to the letter is a shit stain human being.

Yep

For that sorta bullshit, we need religion!

In a Christian state, kissing in public is also prohibited. People in the West have forgotten this because, here, countries are secular, even though Christianity is the dominant religion.

For example, in my country, Portugal, before the Carnation Revolution of April 25, 1974, which introduced secularism, kissing in public or even holding hands was prohibited. The penalty could range from a simple fine to imprisonment. There was even a crime of "vadiagem" if you were caught in public, say, in a park, doing nothing during standard weekly working hours.

The previous regime in Portugal, the Salazarist Estado Novo, is generally described by historians as a quasi-fascist, Christian-Nationalist regime.

This happened in the province Aceh where everyone is Muslim like 99% of the population. Aceh is the only province in Indonesia with Sharia Law. Aceh has a special autonomous status, has basically been this way since the Dutch conquered the area. Because the province will go to war if they can't have Sharia Law plus a lot of money flows into that area from Saudi Arabia. They will use that money to fund terrorist cells if they have to.

Indonesia is majority muslim, the ruling class. It's a huge number of groups in the country though. The old president was strong armed into handing off the presidency to the military figurehead that rules now. They staged a bunch of astroturfed protests and idk what else.

It is looking dark, there and everywhere, the illiberal forces are united in destroying liberal democracy, not that indonesia had all that much of that to begin with but still. We need to organize, we are stronger, if united.

There are 2 billion muslims in the world. They are not a monolith. You would struggle to find muslims who agree with each other on all fronts if you tried. Jumping from these muslims did something bad to all muslims are intolerant is nuts and I encourage you to reevaluate and maybe speak to actual Muslims sometime.

Religion in general can be a tool of oppression, this is not unique to Islam. Do not fall for your ruling class' villification of the other.

Bigotry is pointing to assholes in a foreign country and saying 'that's why my friendly neighbors should be deported.'

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