And how many right-wingers on Voat want to merge Christianity with government while criticizing Muslims who want the same for their faith. People here aren't championing western values they just think their god can beat up the other guy's god. Anyone who thinks the opposite of Islamic fundamentalism is Christian fundamentalism is just stupid. The hypocrisy is out of control. A wave of Christian fascism would be the death of the West just like Islamic Fascism. Authoritarianism is ugly regardless of which faith or ideology it wraps itself in.
willfully ignorant is not accurate. they are self centered and don't have enough time to study everything. everyone is like that, it is part of the human condition. it takes a great amount of self restraint to focus outward, and that isn't something they teach in public schools anymore. go thank your parents for teaching you discipline.
many muslims, perhaps the silent majority, live in tiny villages in the middle of nowhere in the middle east. they want nothing to do with politics, they shun national identity and consider themselves islamic rather than a citizen of their country. why do you not know this? would you say it is because you are willfully ignorant? the majority of muslims live in local tribes that self police and do not act like a nation as you would think of one. this is why there is so much infighting, they are tribalists of sorts. sharia law is implemented on a small scale with a few exceptions such as the leaders of islamic countries and influential imams (which make up a tiny fraction of a tiny fraction of the total muslim populace).
you can say that the quoran says this or that. but it doesn't matter, because a huge amount of muslims are illiterate and couldn't read it anyway. they do what their local imam tells them to do, they tend to be peaceful and xenophobic. they fight with other tribes and with people who invade their land where they are mostly farmers. the muslims you see are the ones who end up on the news, who are in politics, who are in regions that have electricity and devices that can record them. a whole lot of muslims don't live in those types of places.
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Humans aren't smart. Most people don't understand why we have separation of church and state.