Cologne rally: As many as 10,000 Muslims to protest Islamic extremism

This needs to be further up. I'm equally against the rampant bigotry of the right and the "PC" at all costs. There's a realism in between these two stances that needs to be dealt with.

Often the right will talk about their fears of Islam, and the left responds with statistics with how few Muslism are terrorists. That's great. Honestly. A decent response - but it lacks nuance.

When your perspective on gays, atheists, transgendered people, empowered women, sexual women, polyamorous people, or merely people of a different faith than you resembles some of the more ..what I would call extreme Southern Baptists or evangelicals or mountain snake handlers .. then that's a problem.

When you take it further - as you said, and are for forced marriages, child brides, FGM, and using that religion to subvert a nation's standing legal system in favor of an internal one that supports all these awful things...

then that's a problem.

And it's an embarrassment of the left who gets so wrapped up in defending Muslims from the age old racists, xenophobes, and religious bigots who will not recognize there are DEEP, WIDESPREAD, conservative and flat-out dark-aged based cultural problems here that do not belong in the western world or anywhere else for that matter.

We have come a long way as a people - with much longer to go, not to be dragged backwards by importing people more conservative, more regressive, more homophobic, more anti-feminist than the white, conservative, patriarchal structures that exist in our nations right now.

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