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[CW: mentions of Islamophobia] Is Islam as homophobic and sexist as westerners claim? (hexbear.net)

submitted 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm guessing it's like Christianity where there are leftist Christians who follow Jesus' more progressive messages such as giving to the less fortunate and healing the sick, and then there are the scary Christian evangelicals that want A Handmaids Tale and conversion therapy. Logically, Islam probably isn't a monolith in a similar way other religions aren't.

However, I have never heard about what those of the Islamic faith actually believe outside of the hysterical post 9/11 Islamophobia I've been indoctrinated with as a child.

I want to know what the truth is and hear the other sides story. To me it's obvious that Islamophobia is wrong, however when Islamophobes make wild claims about it, I can't really refute them confidently because I'm simply ignorant of the facts. Please educate my dumb, white ass.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

In his first thread here, Mahmoud, a Palestinian hexbear user, in response to a user discussing that it was disheartening that Kamala and Trump were the same with respect to the genocide, wrote “trump is better for America than Kamala, because at least he does not believe in homosexuality. This is a very good thing.”

He has since deleted this message and reposted it without this part. Perhaps this reflected a poor Arabic->English translation, or perhaps he changed his mind later. Take it with a huge grain of salt, too, given that this is a sample size of n=1. But it is also a person with all the intense selection biases of posting here, which would cut quite aggressively against posting such sentiment.