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[quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima]Islam has no monopoly on homophobia.There are tons of Christian communities that are virulently anti-gay. A lot of people murder, rape and terrorize other people and are passed off as mentally ill if they have the right skin color. Most of the homophobia  in this country is derived/justified using Christianity. Is it possible ISIS inspired Omar Mateen's actions? It's possible, but pretty damn unlikely. His only connections to ISIS are probably him shouting something about ISIS right before dying to cause exactly the type of rhetoric that is happening right now. For years, he's been talking like he's got connections to whatever was "popular" at the time. After the Boston bombings , he claimed to know the Tsarneavs, which the FBI looked into and found without merit, he also claimed to be a member of Hezbollah, said he had family members in Al-Qaeda, ect.. There are reports now that  he also was a regular at Pulse and has been going there for the past 3 years, accounts of him drunk at Pulse, getting into fights,  and had an account on a gay dating site. Not what i would call a devout muslim, dying for the cause. Not sure, how true these reports are, but I wouldn't be surprised. He could've just been a closeted, self-hating bigot who couldn't come to terms with who he was.[/quote]

Amazing map, I wonder why all the Muslim countries are red?

[img]https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2013/06/gay-marriage.jpg[/img][/quote]

1-Not all Muslim countries are red, and some countries in Red are actually Christian.

I[quote]N THE LATE 1990s, Eric Rudolph — raised Catholic and affiliated for a time with a Christian Identity sect — bombed abortion clinics and a gay bar, insisting they were venues of immorality and evil. Last July, an Orthodox Jewish Israeli attacked the marchers in the Jerusalem LGBT pride parade, stabbing six of them, and one of them, a teenager, died of her wounds; justifying his attacks by appealing to Talmudic punishments for homosexuality, he had just been released from a 10-year prison term for doing the same in 2005. Yesterday, a Christian pastor from Arizona, Steven Anderson, praised the slaughter of 49 people in an Orlando LGBT club on the ground that “homosexuals are a bunch of disgusting perverts” and are “pedophiles.”[/quote]

[quote]A 2015 Pew poll found that U.S. Muslims were more accepting of homosexuality than evangelical Christians, Mormons, and Jehovah’s Witnesses. imilarly, U.S. Muslims are more likely to support same-sex marriage (42 percent support it) than are U.S. evangelicals (28 percent), historically black Protestants (40 percent), Mormons (26 percent) and Jehovah’s Witnesses (14 percent). Indeed, U.S. Muslims are roughly just as likely to support same-sex marriage as Christians generally (44 percent).
Over the last several years, Christian zealots in the U.S. have agitated with both activism and money — often successfully — for the implementation of severely repressive anti-LGBT laws in Christian Africa. That includes Uganda, where they tried to implement the death penalty for homosexuals. The law that was passed, criminalizing homosexuality, has led to severe increases in violent attacks against LGBTs.[/quote]
Source: https://theintercept.com/2016/06/13/stop-exploiting-lgbt-issues-to-demonize-islam-and-justify-anti-muslim-policies/

We can go on and on about whose religion, ideology, ect is more homophobic. Total waste of time, I do not know of a single sound religious tradition that allows, let alone advocates, for such indiscriminate killing. We have to innoculate ourselves against poisonous absolutist ideologies that deliberately exploit tragedies like this to advance divisive agendas. [/quote]

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