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PopeBeanieUntil this is understood, there is little hope that a solution can be found- blaming huge swathes of uninvolved peaceful people is disingenuous and promotes hatred and bigotry.
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My attention recently is to find the moderates who are speaking up, and promote them. I’m tired of the question “where are they”, and it’s time to start a list. In the end, I think only moderates can take ownership of Islam with their own, moderate interpretation, and get their governments to back off of the enforcement of theocracy. I.e., freedom for religion as well as freedom from religion. I want to support persecuted minority religions, at least.
Yeah, getting the moderates to speak up publicly is laudable, but inciting hatred and blaming the moderates that we need to support seems to be the populist fad right now because of frustrations that cannot be easily solved by (e.g.) just going to war.
Most importantly, I see few positive ideas from the right. I mention that because (some of them) blame the left for not solving the problem!? If one way to solve the problem is to stop the left from lumping the right into bigots and racists, fine, I’m good with that! Meanwhile, what we see now are righteous politicians supported by bigots and racists (like Trump) to get into power with the idea “do anything, even if it’s wrong”, because the politically correct left is to blame. (WTF?!)