I'll concede that yes, Christianity is on the decline in most of the Western world and comparatively Islam is on the rise. Not nearly at the level you're implying though and it will definitely not have the consequences you claim it will have.
if i'm being perfectly honest, no i don't really care for islam as an ideology
i dated a muslim girl for years, i was in love with her. she was pretty liberal and all that, she basically just vaguely believed in islam but wasn't particularly strict about it obviously since she dated me and i was a nonbeliever.
her parents were more conservative, and i never was able to openly tell them i dated her as a result because they wouldn't accept it and would disown her. and she basically agreed with me about the things wrong with islam and would say oh thats just wahhabism or whatever, not real islam.
but even so, with all that, she would occasionally express a negative image of herself as a sinner, cause she had slept with like 3 other guys before me. and she thought that made her kind of whorish. even though i would tell her that's not a big deal at all.
she would basically try to convince herself that dating me was alright though and god would approve. she said something about how the quran says its ok for mulsims to date christians... and when i reminded her that i wasn't a chrisitian but an atheist she didn't respond. like that sort of cognitive dissonance... got the sense she was just clinging to the religion as a form of cultural identity... she had every inclination otherwise to be liberal and pro sexual freedom and liberation... but every once in a while that islamic sentiment would shine through and she'd seem to hold on to some residual sexual repression as a result
i've seen similar shit with christians, but tbh it just seems a bit more extreme in islam. that being said in certain parts of the country it's openly popular to hate on muslims as a group as so as a sort of self conscious over correction, many liberals are self conscious about criticizing islam because it might seem ethnocentric.
Again, this is only relevant is there is Charia law or something, even if religion gives you the pass at murder, the law can still punish you for it. I mean, violence against woman happens mostly inside their own couple/family anyways.
that being said.... i don't know why you're paranoid about islam infiltrating america.. maybe we just live in different sections but that sounds silly as hell to me. if by infiltrating you mean we tolerate muslims as a religion then honestly that's what we're supposed to do by law but in practice we're doing a really shit job at it.
like i said i don't care for the belief system but i think you should still be friendly with people.... honestly i don't care for the christian belief system either but i try not to go around bugging christians about that, unless they put it out there first.
honestly so many people believe that aliens built the pyramids these days, and i think they're kind of slow for thinking such... but even that's become so prevalent that you sort of have to tolerate it as well
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yea i saw that... they are trying to teach tolerance of islam not submission to allah lol
honestly in my high school we had a "bible study" class as an elective and the teacher was a bible believing protestant christian and the whole class was basically talking about biblical stories like they really happened. at a public school. in statesville, nc. but that's not indoctrination or religious infiltration, heavens no. only when you make them learn about another religion... then you have your secret muslim infiltration... slipping it in there slickly like fluoride in your water supply... that's the evil communist muslim plot to subvert our precious bodily fluids, no?
Yeah, I agree. Clearly, making kids with young impressionable minds recite that trash ("no god but Allah") is not about tolerance. LMAO. It's teaching our next generation of kids to choose it over Christianity. Anyone who doesn't understand that is either blind or they just hate Christianity. Which is the religion our country was founded on.
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