Their enemy's enemy is not their friend

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algebe's picture
Their enemy's enemy is not their friend

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-31/same-sex-marriage-why-have-muslims...

Australia is in the midst of a national debate about same-sex marriage. The various Christian lobby groups are spewing their predictable vitriol, but there has been a deafening silence from Muslims. This article analyzes why.

When they're not demonizing gays, Christians are busy demonstrating outside mosques or yelling abuse at women in burkas on buses. The Muslim anti-gay bigots don't want to align themselves with the Christian anti-gay bigots because they're also anti-Muslim bigots. They also don't want to offend those on the left, who've been the voice of tolerance for both Muslims and gays.

Sometimes it's hard to be a bigot.

However, I was interested to learn from this article that there are organizations called Muslims for Progressive Values and Muslims for Marriage Equality. I think both Christianity and Islam are fundamentally anti-tolerance, so those names make about as much sense to me as Nazis for Racial Harmony.

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xenoview's picture
Sounds like a real mess for

Sounds like a real mess for the LGBT people and muslims. I'm sure the muslims will speak out about gay marriage soon enough, most likely against it due to religious belief.

Sky Pilot's picture
A lot of muslim guys don't

A lot of muslim guys don't have anything against homosexuality per se since they have engaged in it at one time or another, especially Afghan men. Remember, one of their rewards in paradise is that they get a herd of cute boys.

MCDennis's picture
I am sorry that this is a

I am sorry that this is a debate. However, I don't give a flying fuck what the theists positions are on this topic.

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