I say this knowing that people stuck within the violence of communities that are extremely conservative and deploy violence to maintain that conservatism through mandatory and functionally-mandatory power structures don’t necessarily have an outlet to deal with the resulting trauma from that and that this is has to be considered as context when people vent in toxic ways about religion.
Literally had someone on here say they want to wipe out all 4 billion followers of Abrahamic religions. It’s unhinged at that point and not any better than the likes of ISIS
It’s also only caring about viewing an aspect of human culture through the lens of rationality when it comes to whether some ridiculous magic bullshit happened from a higher power and ignoring the extremely relevant and very rational adjacent context that fears of dark skinned Muslim people are used all over the world in majority Christian nations to distract voters from thinking about how much they are suffering at home.
The more we hate Islam the easier it is to distract us from the fact that we don’t have healthcare…. money, or time off.
I am all for viewing religions like Islam through a rational lens, but I think that includes being careful not to feed into narratives Islam is inherently dangerous when criticizing Islam from an atheist perspective.
Also, it is difficult to rationally criticize Islam without including geopolitics and colonialism as a context for why violence is perceived as being associated with Islam. It is too important of a context, you can’t carefully just cut it out like it is the edges of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.