Yeah, never liked the online communities. Like, they’re good when people can ask there for advice, in case they’re stuck in some ultra-religious family or village. But most of the time, they just devolve into anti-theism, because “religion bad” is sure to get you upvotes…
It’s really easy to pump up Islamophobia, too. All you have to do is ask them why they never attack Islam, and imply it’s because they’re afraid. When Gaza was in the news, I would see a spike in anti-Muslim posts in the atheism subreddits. It’s embarrassing how long it took me to realize that the anti-Muslim stuff wasn’t there to attack ISIS or al-Qaeda. It was there to justify what was happening in Gaza.
There was even an atheist group I was a part of that had several speakers come to tell us about how horrible Muslims were, how they abused women, etc. Oh, and then we had a Jewish lady come and talk to us about how open-minded and rational Judaism is.
Yeah, never liked the online communities. Like, they’re good when people can ask there for advice, in case they’re stuck in some ultra-religious family or village. But most of the time, they just devolve into anti-theism, because “religion bad” is sure to get you upvotes…
It’s really easy to pump up Islamophobia, too. All you have to do is ask them why they never attack Islam, and imply it’s because they’re afraid. When Gaza was in the news, I would see a spike in anti-Muslim posts in the atheism subreddits. It’s embarrassing how long it took me to realize that the anti-Muslim stuff wasn’t there to attack ISIS or al-Qaeda. It was there to justify what was happening in Gaza.
There was even an atheist group I was a part of that had several speakers come to tell us about how horrible Muslims were, how they abused women, etc. Oh, and then we had a Jewish lady come and talk to us about how open-minded and rational Judaism is.