A 29-year-old police officer died on Sunday after being repeatedly stabbed during an attack at an anti-Islam rally in Germany.
A 29-year-old police officer died on Sunday after being repeatedly stabbed during an attack at an anti-Islam rally in Germany.
Is there actually someone still moderating feddit.de? Comments like this make me think I’m in the Fox News comment section.
I’m critical of all religions.
However, in the past ten years, there is a pattern of violence against people who are critical of Islam.
There isn’t another religion I’m scared of criticising publicly.
There’s much more than that a pattern of systemic discrimination against Muslims in the Western world that resembles anti-Semitic conspiracy theories before the Nazi time. It’s very scary.
It’s perfectly fine to be critical of all religions. What’s not fine of course is violence from any side. However, this „religion of peace“ comment is just a very common dogwhistle used by the far right to imply that being a Muslim makes you a violent and dangerous person per se.
I think saying “religion of peace” is about as much of a dog whistle as “there’s no hate like Christian love”.
Obviously, not all Christians are overtly judgemental assholes, and not all Muslims are terrorists.
The ones who suffer most from Islam, are the Muslims who live under its theocracy, whether they realise it or not.
Oh, I’m far from far right. I’m actually slightly left and I mean the real left, not the American one. I don’t think that being a muslim means you’re a terrorist. I just don’t see any other group committing so many murders in Europe. And very explicitly in the name of islam.
I don’t hide from facts when they don’t suit me. Prove me wrong and I’ll happily publicly apologize.
Look up extreme right-wing murders, they are significantly more than islamist ones in Europe.
Brevik alone probably killed more people than all islamists (in Europe) in the same year combined.
feddit.de has had massive database problems for like 2 months now. It’s not accessible via the default web interface, only via third party (web)apps. It’s very likely that moderation of feddit.de communities has been increasingly difficult for the mods.
Seriously? You’d want me moderated for that comment?
Can you really only exist within echo chambers online?
If it calms you down a bit, I view Christianity pretty much the same.
One of the biggest failures of the left is its reactionary defence of Islam (as a religion).
Any honest criticism of Islam is branded Islamophobia (similarly to how any criticism of Israel is conflated with antisemitism).
Regardless of whether one wants to blame the Quran, or the cultures of Muslim communities - the fact remains that people get killed in non-Muslim majority countries for trivial shit.
I could draw a picture of Jesus sucking off Joseph Smith and I don’t need to worry about Mormons coming to kill me.
The likelihood of some mentally disturbed person killing you for something like that is about equally high for Muslims or Mormons: i.e extremely low.
But if it is a Muslim, you can be sure the right-wing media is full of it.
You cannot say they are equally high when:
12 people were killed for publishing a cartoon of Muhammad.
A teacher was beheaded for showing a drawing of Muhammad.
Cartoonist drew Muhammad, leading to Danish embassies being attacked and riots broke out and people died. Later, people broke into his house to try to kill him.
Cartoonist had to live under police protection because of threats.
Creators of South Park were threatened for including Muhammad in an episode of the show.
These were just a few from the FIRST PAGE of a search engine, AND outside of Muslim majority countries.
If you still think there’s an equal chance of violence against you, then I dare you to draw Muhammad and publish it with your real name.
This is before even considering every other ‘provocation’, leading to incidences like:
Salman Rushdie being stabbed on stage
A teacher forced into hiding for showing a picture of mahammad
Right so you’re answering the argument that killings by muslim are overrepresented in media by quoting search engine results? If you actually want factual numbers you’d need to take a look at the criminal data from you country.
Do you think there’s an argument to be made that Boeing’s aeroplane failures are overrepresented in media?
What a stupid thing to say.
I don’t need to crunch any numbers; the links are right there, the murderers EXPLICITLY state they did it because the person insulted their religion.
I challenge you to find me more than one example of a murder which was deliberately invoked because someone insulted a holy person from another religion over the last ten years.
Yes, Boeing’s failures are vastly overrepresented in media if you compare it deaths caused by cars for example. It’s really stupid to be afraid of Boeing planes, but not of cars.
And there are litterally thousands of murders caused by right-wing ideology, which is almost indistinguishable from extremist islamism. Look up some actual data on that and you will see that this is a much bigger danger in “non-muslim majority” countries. But you probably don’t care because you are personally not their target 😑
You’re missing the forest for the trees.
There are thousands of murders caused by right-wing ideology (Islam is also a right-wing ideology), but the difference is nobody is trying to kill me because I say Nazis are bad, or Trump is a dickhead.
And about Boeing… The failures are not vastly overrepresented, they are represented exactly as they are. If a car manufacturer had as many faults as Boeing, then yes, they would get equal airtime. In this analogy, wouldn’t it be fucking insane if people were being killed for criticising Boeing?
You are literally ignoring what I am saying. I’ve answered to the thread where you were answering the argument of mentally insane people kill as much as islamists, but the latter are more represented by the media by searching for headlines on a search engine. Nothing else, I’ve not actually challenged the argument of islamists completely overreacting at people insulting their believes.
Though just to clarify, while sceptism toward religion is always warranted, insulting someone’s believes is arguably a no-go as well.
But you’re obviously on a slippery slope towards the right. There have been plenty of violent attacks on politicians in the past few months in Germany alone. And they didn’t even have to say anything against the attackers ideology
One of the mods banned be because of a disagreement. Don’t be surprised if I don’t reply after this (means I got banned again) So I’m replying here:
I guess we’re just talking past one another.
I am not talking about how represented Islamic terrorism is, at all - whether it is reported in the news or not, it’s besides any point I’m making.
It simply is a fact that murdering due to drawing cartoons is not a life or death matter for any other religious group (or any other claims, like Muhammad being a paedophile).
Arguing against a media bias by showing search results from media that confirm that bias 🙄
I was never arguing against media bias, so, whatever I guess.
No one bothered to report this and/or federated reports are broken so that I didn’t get any reports. But don’t complain about the lack of moderation if you don’t report things you think should be moderated.
I reported quite a bit. I assume it’s because of the federation thing then. I wasn’t aware of that.
There’s not only subtle dogwhistles like this one that are commonly used in social media to imply that being a Muslim automatically makes you violent and dangerous.
But there’s also a guy in another thread arguing that the far right extremist Michael Stürzenberger is indeed a good guy. He got attacked with a knife, something I don’t support. But Stürzenberger is certainly a Nazi who got convicted e.g. for incitement to hatred and who got observed by the authorities for being an enemy of democracy. Those are the facts, when I pointed that out, said person got offended and said that I’m very biased. Another person also got offended that I called the guy a Nazi. You may think it’s opinion vs opinion but some of the stuff they posted and I reported was just straight misinformation.
The mere fact that there’s several people in here who know this insignificant group and want to defend it shows me that this community is already being infiltrated by Nazis.
You may think I’m panicking or biased or whatever but I know the situation in Germany quite well and if these people show up you have limited time until they drive away all your normal users.
I think more moderators are needed.
You are volunteering? This community indeed needs more moderators.
I think I’d make a very poor moderator. I think I’d make a better contribution to the community by submitting links.