jyng1 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 29, 2021 3:42 am
Julius_Van_Der_Beak wrote: ↑Mon Mar 29, 2021 3:34 am
I wonder what the Marxist-Leninist perspective on this is.
"Religion is the opium of the people".
That's what I would have thought. I'm sympathetic to migrants and refugees, especially those from regions that the U.S. and Britain fucked over because of imperialistic foreign policy; and I think a lot of the xenophobia about them is extremely hypocritical after all the effort we spent trying to bring them "freedom" (lol) because we cared about them so much. (If you don't like people coming to your house and trying to tell you how to do things, maybe you shouldn't have demolished their house because it didn't seem up to date enough to be a comfortable place to live, which also allowed you to build things on top of the space that you made a lot of money out of [which of course isn't related at all].) At the same time, I have a hard time seeing why one religion should be protected and not other ones. And I don't think death threats (or actual murders) are excusable depending on which particular religion. Perhaps the cartoons
wereoffensive but in my view that doesn't create some kind of equivalency with death threats.
Part of this whole problem is that the U.S. government's idiotic response to 9/11 has actually done nothing except make the problem of Islamic extremism worse, and naturally, nobody involved with that in the U.S. has faced or will face accountability for that.
There, that's my crazy hateful bigoted opinion on the matter.
Oh, and I'm sorry I keep editing to add clarity, but there's something else I just remembered. Doesn't Britain have much more restrictive laws about free speech than the U.S. and they don't actually have an equivalent to a first amendment? (They also happen to have an official church which the head of state is basically
de jure the Pope of, so it's not entirely secular.) Perhaps within the context of the British legal system, the reaction isn't as extreme as it might seem in an American context? I tend not to hear about Muslims in the U.S. doing things like this.