You don't get to speak for us.

I don't even know why I'm against shariah tbh..
Women will start acting like women again and gays will finally get the oppression they're so desperate to be under..
You're right, I'll keep quiet from now on :)

Hey, liberals love Muslims and their ideology, may aswell let them learn the hard way.

Can't have equal rights for women and gays AND have unwavering support for Islam 'cuz minoritees'... Sooner you guys learn that the better.
Dont bother me if hamsters want more snakes, I'm neither so it's not my funeral..

Principled liberals who know what they’re talking about have no time for radical political Islam and its violence and repression of minorities

But the rights of Muslims themselves, as people, should be protected — not all Muslims advocate terrorism. In fact, only a tiny handful do

These positions are not inconsistent at all

You are just making stuff up and the only one here who has expressed any admiration for Sharia law

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/magazine/united-arab-emirates-mohammed-bin-zayed.amp.html

You’d benefit from reading this article on MBZ, the de facto ruler of the UAE. There’s been a huge crackdown on terrorists and political Islamists by the hereditary monarchs of many Muslim states over the past few years that you must have just missed.

Human rights are not great in these states. However, these monarchs are more aligned with the West and its values, and even the state of Israel, than is commonly thought. And they lay claim to the mantle of “real Islam” as well, to be sure — and have decades of relatively successful rule to back it up.

I guarantee you MBS, MBZ, King Abdullah II of Jordan, and the rest of the hereditary rulers of the Middle East know way more about Islam — and here is the key: *as it is actually practiced by real Muslims in real life* — than you do

Like, orders of magnitude more

Eh, there are reasons to suspect that the hereditary rulers of Muslim states (whose families have been ruling for decades if not centuries) know a thing, or two, or ten thousand, about the practical workings of the religion they themselves practice and that millions of their subjects overwhelmingly follow

More so than whatever Pee Wee Herman thinks about the law

But yeah... I may be wrong, maybe they don’t know anything about the religion of their homeland they rule

And maybe you are a Ph.D. in Islamic studies! Who knows!

It’s the internet! Anything could be true!

"Principled liberals who know what they’re talking about have no time for radical political Islam and its violence and repression of minorities"

No, just unfiltered mass immigration of people from nations with cultures that perpetuate these exact issues, which are then perpetually exempt from criticism when they continue this behaviour here on the grounds that 'they're minorities are not 100% of them behave in this fashion.'

You're right, these positions aren't inconsistent, in the sense that the results of the stupid left and apparent sensible left end with similar results.

The population of Muslims in the U.S. is about 1%, last I checked, and a lot of them are native-born not immigrants.

Even if all of them were radicals, which they’re not, they don’t have the numbers to take over and they never will.

You might have an argument if this were Europe (which is right next to the Middle East, after all), but there is simply no mass immigration from Muslim countries in the U.S.

or Kabul in the early 70's? or even from Iraq?

there are millions upon millions of cultural muslims who tangentially identify as muslim more due to cultural attachments than actual religious conviction.we see this with catholics,who never go to church,jews,methodists etc etc...

radicalization happens,of course,but the vehicle can be religion and/or nationalism,but it is always born from tribalism.that connective tissue a community uses to form a cohesive focal point of solidarity.

so we can take sunni muslims.
which tends to be extremely peaceful,but this is also the sect that has given birth to:ISIS,al qeada,al nusra etc etc.
and,ironically,is a major export of our solid ally,saudi arabia,in the form of Salafism/Wahhabism.which is an extreme and radical interpretation based from sunni.

not arguing with your points,just pointing out it is far more complicated than the small sliver you are positing.
haven't seen "jizya" used in a long time.nice ottoman empire reference there buddy.

at the end of the day,scritpure can become whatever we want it to become.
if you are a peaceful,loving person.then your religious outlooks will reflect that.
if you are a violent and brutal person,your religion will reflect that.

turns out,if you have access to resources and the ability to care for your family and community.people tend to go about their business with little conflict.

we can go back to before the balfour declaration and the treaty of Versailles,and see how jews,christians and muslims got along quite well.

just my .02

What a stupid meme, but hey you seem to roll with these.
Why would it lessen the cause for conservative christians to condemn etc etc under sharia. How stupid can one meme be?

And you are a Woman or LBGQT etc living under Sharia law as well i suppose?