Canada

If you condemn and criticize the individuals you would be right: these are vile people who acted out extremist hateful sexist violence. They suck, they should be arrested, tried and have the book thrown at them because their actions are disgusting.

This is what happens when you start sacrificing common sense in favor ideological dogma. See, sometimes issues go beyond individuals. When we see patterns emerging, we have to address the issues as societal problems. When you have one person burning down buildings you have horrid individual, when you have 1000 it's a societal crises. While we have to criticize the individuals and hold them accountable for their actions, we also have to address the reasons why this is a trend to begin with so we can take steps to actually fix the issue.

You can't do this red herring where you ignore the trends and the big picture and just have tunnel vision on the one instance. This is what conservatives try to do whenever there's a school shooting. They'll do everything but admit that guns are the problem. What you're doing right now is the same as a conservative going "it's not the guns, it's mental health", "you can't say it's guns because there are good gun owners", or "why don't we ban cars". Come on dude, at least try to have a honest conversation about this.

Canadians as a whole are not violent islamophobes because some idiot shot up a mosque. Canadian culture is not vile and antisemitic because some other idiot shot up a Jewish school. The Christian religion as a whole is not antidemocratic just because some US evangelical trumpists did the January 6th thing. Same principle applies to Syrians or Muslims as a whole.

Are you really trying to virtue signal to me the ol' classic "not all muslims"? At this point you have to be disingenuous. No shit, nobody is implying otherwise. You're just trying to find every excuse to defend islam and homophobic cultures. No, criticizing a culture or religion is NOT accusing every single individual of that culture or religion of being whatever is criticized. If we follow your own line of logic then criticizing homophobia in the US makes you a bigot because not all Americans are homophobes... Not only is this stating the obvious which nobody is contesting, but it serves no purpose other than to distract and detract from the points being made.

And no, the “aspects” caveat doesn’t work. We didn’t have a moral panic about antidemocratic aspects of Christianity because of Jan 6th.

Wtf are you even talking about? We literally did. Not necessarily about Jan 6th because that wasn't religiously driven, but we have moral panics about Christianity every other month. From book bans to abortion rights to erosion of church and state to whatever. We regularly criticize Christianity for it's questionable teachings and culture... that's why it's presence has weakened so much over the years. Why is it so hard for you to be consistent and apply the same principles to other religions like islam?

But it seems the far right loves to stir panic about “aspects” of Islam or brown people all the fucking time.

Have you ever wondered why the cops didn't actually do anything to stop the criminals here? How about the many other instances like it in Canada or the UK or Sweden or whatever? It's because they're scared of being called racist. This isn't me making things up, this is an actual thing. Here's the most famous example from the UK:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/grooming-gangs-iicsa-racist-fears-b2007649.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28967427

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-28951612

Over there they have these massive muslim gangs all over the country that have been systematically young girls for DECADES. The most infamous of these gangs happened in the city of Rotherham where the muslim gang raped over 1400 children for over 30 fucking years. The cops barely did anything about any of it because they were terrified of being called racist. Why? Because every time they try do something morons like you crawl out of the woodworks to call them racist form mobs, berate them, and jeopardize their jobs.

It's not just the cops, the victims were shunned into silence too. Not by the criminals, but by the supposed "progressive" Labor politicians. For example, this ghoul publicly liked and retweeted a tweet that stated the following:

"Those abused girls in Rotherham and elsewhere just need to shut their mouths. For the good of diversity."

https://metro.co.uk/2017/08/23/mp-shares-tweet-saying-abuse-victims-should-shut-their-mouths-for-good-of-diversity-6872181/

The worst part is that when you actually hear the stories of the victims, it is the most gut wrenching thing. You have little girls going home from school only to get kidnapped, beaten, and raped repeatedly. Some of the girls even got pregnant and gave birth to babies they were forced to have. Just when these young girls needed the human rights activists, the feminists, the progressives, the police, the politicians, the justice system by their side... they were abandoned by all them. These people either did nothing to not offend the mob or outright defended the criminals. Everything here is a part of the infamous Rotherham child abuse ring:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploitation_scandal

However, it should be noted that the raping is still going on today in that same city. It should also be known that Rotherham is NOT the only city. There's literally dozens of other examples of the same exact thing happening:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse_in_the_United_Kingdom#Notable_incidents

It's not just the politicians either, the muslims leaders in the city were fully aware of the rapes and they went out of their way to cover them up:

https://www.sanskritimagazine.com/rotherham-child-sexual-exploitation-muslim-leaders-aware-nothing/

The reason why I brought all of this up is to demonstrate how this IS about culture and religion, how it IS a societal issue, how it IS something that goes beyond individuals. Those girls are all humans who had their childhoods robbed from them, some of them might never recover. It's truly is sad. What's worse, is that the same issues that prevented the Rotherham case from being brought to light are happening again and again. All of this could have been prevented if people like you stopped this virtue signaling crusade and actually held a set of principles for once. Can you imagine if all the groups I previously mentioned in the UK stuck by their values, called out the problematic aspects of islam and homophobic cultures right away, held the homophobes accountable for their hate, and actually stood by the victims immediately? Perhaps thousands of those girls wouldn't have ended up as statistics for this ongoing tragedy.

These lesbian girls are the same. They went through something that's truly horrid, and instead of the LGBT groups, progressives, cops, and so many other supposed allies coming to their rescue... they all instead rushed to victim blame and defend the criminals. These girls aren't the only LGBT victims in Canada to these types of incidents. Why? Why are we letting people live in fear like this? Why are we not defending the victims? Why are we not calling the vile aspects of islam and islamic cultures? Why are we not deporting these criminals? How many more victims do there need to be? How many more attacks? How many more traumatized souls? What I am saying is so well documented and there are so many examples, that I could give you as many sources and examples as you could possible want. I just want to understand what it will take for you to actually come to your senses and admit that maybe, just maybe, there is a problem with islam, there is a problem with homophobia form islamic cultures, that maybe we need to address it as a society?

You want to talk about “aspects” without being a useful idiot for the far right? Raise voices from within that community, who will know exactly how to walk that fine line.

Just an FYI, I actually lived in Syria (I lived in a suburb of Damascus called Jaramana from 2006-2009). There's literally no way you know more about this than me. You're trying to lecture from a place of ignorance. I'm 100% certain you have no idea what a sahih hadith is or what verse 4:34 says in the quran or what a fatwa is without looking them (which you should). Seriously, you know absolutely nothing about islam, islamic cultures, how muslims view homosexuality, or anything really. The image you have of islam is not based in reality.

You're either intentionally looking the other way without noticing or you're in a bubble. You can literally just browse the comments under this post or this very thread to see examples of what I'm talking about