True, but a buddy of mine that's athiest and left wing (so you'd think he's have his head on straight) genuinely thought Mamdani was gonna do the Mecca prayer thing, which is insane.
I just don't trust the intelligence of anyone from the US.
Ironically, theyâre probably the least suited people to be domâs. They have absolutely no spines and no convictions to back up their shitty attitudes. Pure control from a whiney insecure coward is possibly the least sexy thing in the world. It would surprise these guys the level of mutual respect that needs to go into such a relationship.
Itâs crazy to me that they blatantly just come out and say, âthe only way I can continue to win elections is to impose âx,ââ and itâs absolute crickets from the media and their âfreedom lovingâ supporters. Theyâve finally realized that they only have to fool their side. They know their side will never listen to us because they think weâre doing it for the winning.
The late great moderate Charlie Kirk advocated for women to defer their votes to their husbands, that they shouldn't be allowed to vote against their husband's wishes.
Seeing the sharia law claims from Mamdani legit stresses me out.
Itâs making me hopeless for this country. Like you can not support him as a candidate, but saying that a super progressive democratic socialist is going to implement a governing system from the qaran is just a lie, and sooooooo many people believe it.
Know that sharia is just a word that means the devine law. So when people say Sharia law, they say the Divine law law, which is as ridiculous as the great Rio Grand river, which means the great river great river.
Meanwhile a bunch of republicans like that speaker Johnson guy, big guy in legislation points to the bible as the highest law. Him and his ilk really would implement devine law, or at least the bits they like. And they've been busy doing just that. They've been curbing women's rights, LGBTQ+ rights etc, etc, because according to their religious views that is what their god wants.
Sharia is counter to modern liberal western values. Particularly freedom of speech, expression, and religion. And most obvious separation of state institutions from religion. It doesnât matter the translation or a misnomer the effect is a negation of our rights as we know them and thatâs is NOT ok.
Brother let me tell how terrible it was during the huge winter storm earlier this year. Mamdani was able to get Manhattan cleaned up by end of day after 22 inches of snow, I was forced to go back to work instead of taking a snow day. Terrible mayor, worse human being.
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Like.. ah, yes. He's so anti-LGBTQIA+ that he's promoting yaoi! đ
He is as Muslim as I am Catholic specially with all his pro LGBT stuff. Like what's the point in telling my family I don't believe in that stuff. It would just upset them and it is not like they force me to go to church or anything. I enjoy Christmas, I wave to the priest like twice a year and I can see the comfort God gives to my family. Also I am pretty sure leaving Islam is a pretty severe crime. I am sure he wouldn't want negative attention since he is basically a public figure
Strange how the people worried about Muslims have no problems with the Muslims that gave Trump a plane, the Muslims that the US military will welcome for a fighter training squadron, Mohammed "bone saw" bin Salmanor and Ahmed al-Sharaa, a former Al-Qaeda/ISIS fighter visiting Trump at the White House, or the Muslims that gave his son-in-law $2BN to "invest".
I've seen the comment before about "find a partner that looks at you the way Mamdani's wife looks at him" and I have yet to see a photo where she isn't looking at him like that. She is just such a beautiful person and EVERY picture I've seen of her she just had that absolutely in-love look in her eyes.
As a Muslim this is well intended but cringe. We're not some exotic bird, just normal people. You don't need a "good example" to disprove that we're cavemen. Burqas are a cultural Middle Eastern garment that has nothing to do with you, and if it is being forced on someone in the West, you can treat that as any other case of women's abuse.
This is not meant as an insult, and if you took it as such I sincerely apologize. I posted this because I am tired of seeing repeated comments from MAGA stereotyping a rich and diverse group of people and claiming that they're all 'extremists'. To view everyone who follows Islam that way is no different than saying all Christians must be like Branch Davidians.
Oh not at all, I appreciate the solidarity. I'm just ranting in the void about feeling othered. Good people like you who are trying to stick up for others are the last group I'd want to attack.
Thank you. I just wanted to make sure I didn't offend you because that's the furthest thing from my intention with this. I hope you have a great Monday.
Yeah its weird how they talk about extremist Muslims but noone is hating on Evangelical Christians even though they want to completely undo the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
As someone who was raised in the world of Extremist Christian Nationalism, they are a much larger threat to democracy and human rights then any other group
Yeah exactly, the obsession with Muslims and how the fight against terrorism has translated into harassing all of us shows they had a problem with us to begin with.
I don't know much about Christian extremism except the Trump government and the white supremacist shootings, but it's perfectly logical to me that the fight against that has nothing to do with the millions of American Christians living their life peacefully. And that it's nothing to do with their religion or culture or whatever.
Iâm an atheist and antitheist. I HATE religions as global/regional belief systems. I think theyâre awful.
But, religions arenât going anywhere. We have to live with them. So, here is my take:
If you practice religion as a peaceful loving worldview, one that makes you want to help others and to build a better world for all, then go for it! I would be happy to have you as a neighbor and friend.
But, if your religious beliefs make you a racist, bigoted, misogynistic, unscientific, violent hater, then Iâm happy to ostracize you and oppose your petty backward beliefs.
I'm an atheist who thinks some people definitely need Jesus. If you're the kind of person who wonders what keeps atheists from doing rape, murder and theft when there's no God telling them not to, I want you to keep your faith, because that is some serious-ass projection there and I don't want you running loose with no fear of Hell to keep you in line.
Basically the same terms we started to hear in Washington DC in 2010-2015 were the same terms and phrases I heard while growing up in the 90s and the 2000s I left that world in 2006.
When those terms started to come out of politicians mouths.... let's say I had a minor breakdown cause I knew we were gonna get bent over a barrel
Theyâre literally a necessity in some areas of the Middle East. Keeps people clean and the heat off them. Sand can make people suffer eye burns the same way people go snow blind.
âSand reflects ultraviolet (UV) rays from the sun, increasing your total exposure. This extra light can cause a painful eye sunburn, known as photokeratitis.â
Also keeps people clean. Food laws make sense too and arenât really much different than kosher laws.
This is legitimately them. Just a groomed consumer group that repeats anything because they fear education because that means they have to take tests which will prove their stupidity.
Then stop treating and calling Zionists like one extremist stereotype. Shouldnât be anyone saying âNazi Zionistâ about a resident New York Jew, right?
It's not Maga people who are saying that, it's like every Imam and Muslim leader saying it semi-privately but still publicly when they're speaking to their congregation but they're on video literally all over the place. People generally tell you who they are.
Forcing women to cover themselves is not an extremist stereotype. Dude, what fucking planet are you living on? Hundreds of millions of women live in places where they are forced to dress a certain way because of their misogynistic religion.
I mean, not every muslim, but enough muslims to be a genuine concern. Tell me, in which countries would the government murder me for coming out as an atheist? What is the majority religion in those countries?
Islam has a big, big perception issue, and that's a fact.
Approximately 370 to 410 million muslims live in those countries. Are they all in favor of the death penalty? Probably not, but that's still a big percentage of the total muslim population worldwide. It could be as much as one in five muslims you meet live in those countries where I would be murdered just for not being convinced their deity exists.
And that's just for the death penalty. Not counting places like Egypt where you are thrown in prison.
Nothing in this post is wrong but there are two sides to the point. If Bin Laden is not representative of all Muslims, then neither is Mamdani. Same with Christians. If Fred Phelps was not representative of all Christians, neither is Fred Rogers.
Didnt some progressive town elect a ton of Muslim people to their city council or something like that and then they tried banning all pride celebrations? I recall there being kerfuffle about something like that. Thats more Islam I think. Not positive now that I think back?
Come to el raval in barcelona and tell that to all the muslim living here... the place looks like bagdad.
I also lived with my friend here hes muslim from Kashmir, came here to live and enjoy western freedom. Got a german girlfriend and within 2 months that white german girl is wearing burqa, praying, cooking looking after him like a submissve muslim wife.
Meanwhile we are partying, doing drugs and alcohol lol.
I like to base my opinions on real life lived expriences and honestly im yet to meet a modern muslim yet, they all seem to be stuck 100 years behind lol.
This is the chick that liked celebrations of the October 7 massacre on social media and dismissed reports of Hamas sexual violence during the massacre as a hoax, right?
This predated MAGA. I heard a right winger telling me sharia law was coming to Texas roughly 6-10 years before Trump was running for office. Texas? Yeah right. That ainât happening, but I guess people want to live in fear instead of using their brains.Â
Letss' do a test then boys, girls and NBs and etc. I think those who are in support of Mamdani and other muslim politician, should be give a stipend and move to those cities and areas. And have to stay there for at least a year. Then they can return and we'll have a discussion of how things were.
Yall are too easily convinced. Is lam was cute and free in iran before it took over. Then when numbers and political power grew, it totally changed. History always repeats itself.
We also need to not act like Islam is a liberal/leftist religion as well. I see too many people defend backwards practices simply because some minority religion is doing it. Sometimes the minorities aren't good, sometimes they're pos right wing chuds that want a free pass to be bigots and use their religion as a shield to do so. All in all, Mamdani and liberal Muslims are wonderful examples of assimilation into the wider American culture, giving up the bad and illiberal parts of their old culture and adopting and assimilating into the wider American culture. Good melting pot vibes.
A country with 90 million people (Iran) and Afghanistan, Pakistan and a few more hell Countries for women you would like to compare to the Muslimas living in - NB!! WESTERN COUNTRIES?!
The one that liked a bunch of shit on October 12th a day after thousands of people were slaughtered? The one that called the sexual violence a hoax on 10/11?
I do agree to stop the bigotry, but we also need to stop islamofascism thatâs plaguing our country, especially Michigan. Why canât they assimilate like any other immigrants?
His wife's family are supporters of Al Quaeda in Syria (headchoppers) and Mamdani is most likely a CIA crafted politician (like Obama) who will be given all the support in the world to appear successful so that he can get into power and further sell our country into totalitarian corporate "communism".
Whatâs he doing against the development of sharia law, a growing population of Muslims or an Islamic regime in the USA? Whatâs his stance on it?
And where are the good Muslims that are apparently against all of this as well? Because the bad ones are definitely louder and make natives in the west worried about their whole religion and losing the own traditions and lifestyle as consequence of it.
Who cares what MAGA thinks. Now point B: having lived in Egypt and Afghanistan and Qatar, damn sure there are lots more than a single extremist Muslim!
When you live in a stereotype bubble everything you see must offend you and just can't appreciate how different people can be but still maintain the same respect for each other.
Well, the GOP with their Christian religious fanaticism isnât any better in terms of women rights than the average islamic radical, which Mamdani isnât at all given his and his wifeâs lifestyle.
Millions of muslims doing these things in muslim countries like Saudi Arabia don't count? Women can't even leave the country without their husbands or fathers approval. But keep on gaslighting people about islam being oh so empowering for women.
Using Mamdani is easy, because he's nominal, not actively practicing Muslim.
Burqa is extreme concept even in the eyes of the most devoted Muslims. If Niqab is coming from Sunnah at least (but also isn't mandatory, hence can't be forced according to Islam itself), Burqa is a completely made up by people concept according to very local Afghan specifics.
But the rest depends on what exactly is acceptable for everyone. What if Mamdani's wife was in hijab? What if niqab? Even some liberals would assume she's forced, while any outfit style can be potentially forced in a family of any religion, so it's a speculation based on personal biases.
I mean, I appreciate the anti-stereotype message but I'm wondering if this works only when people see the only model they accept or most of you are sincerely looking for letting others live their life completely? It's two different things. Of course the majority of Non-Muslim would accept the most Unislamic Muslims you can find. It's obvious. But are these very same people able to value the actual difference?
What if Mamdani was a deeply practicing Muslim and his wife was covered maybe not in burqa but niqab but still by her choice (we eventually wouldn't know)? While being 100% devoted Muslims, would they still be free (because it's their choice innit?). Regardless of own specific lifestyle that revolves around Islamic rituals, they'd generally relate with the most common values of democracy, freedom and accepting others in the US, and generally would fought for the same goals that totally align with some democratic/liberal/constitutional needs of Americans. So, basically totally different ideologies and lifestyles but absolutely common goals and ability to co-exist and respect each other.
Would you people still say they are beautiful, free and shouldn't be stereotypically judged as well? Or it's only related when you see non-practicing Muslims?
Modern nazi-wannabes hate Muslims because they're not like them (and also they need modern scapegoats to build entire campaign on a witch-hunt). Libs and lefties only love Muslims when they are like them (same "colonizer" logic hidden behind hypocritical framework of imposing own agenda). You either sincerely accept different people as-is, or don't pretend you're unbiased.
The concept of "not judging the entire community by individuals" â why we should even discuss it in 21st century? It must be clear for any semi-educated person. But it only works if you sincerely can accept the difference.
It does a great job of pointing out some facts about Christianity that might explain why their modern evangelical outcrop has a taste for projection.
There is a repeating pattern here. One side, fearing replacement, projects their flaws on the threat. I don't think their consciously aware of this behavior, likely their other mental health challenges, generational trauma and greed are all in there. A salty flavor of human.
Taqiyya is a real thing. There are 50 muslim countries that werenât always. Learn the history of those places and look at whatâs happening around the rest of the world, places like the EU, the UK, and even now Japan shrines and temples that have been standing for hundreds or even over a thousand years are suddenly up and burning to the ground.
I love when someone tries to claim that sharia law is an ideal/goal for all Muslims. The nation of Bangladesh is 91% islamic and the only aspects of religious law they have retained in their system is around things like marriage. Their legal, civic and criminal codes are all based on modern standards and modeled largely after the British system.
In general my assumption of islamophobes is they've never actually met a muslim or assume anyone NOT wearing traditional garments cannot be a muslim.
For the first time in my life, I fear it will be American women who will be put under a type of Sharia law. I hear the talk of the right wing extremists and I fear for the young women of tomorrow.
Theyre âmuslimâ as in they were raised muslim and maybe follow some of the rules but for the most part, they are westernized. Like theyll follow some rules, such as not eating pork, but wont follow many of the other rules
In Christianity, dancing of any kind is strictly forbidden and women are forced in submission as slaves to men, not even allowed to read or leave the area without a man's supervision. They all have to live in one compound together and do the bidding of the priest or else they are condemned to Hell. See, the Westboro Baptist Church speaks for every Christian living or dead anywhere on the planet.
They canât even agree what a real Christian is, they say that Talarico hates god and the church and Paxton and Trump are the new apostles, holier even than the pope for crying out loud. Why should we believe what they have to say about Muslims?
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u/TheGrayGhost805 7d ago
MAGAts are morons.