Supporting the right of everyone to follow their faith and practice their beliefs freely and without persecution is something Islam strongly advocates.
People promoting violence, intolerance, prejudice and hatred in violation of Islamic principles are the real problem.
Islam is no longer a philosophy for a balanced life.
It has become a cult.
It positions itself as the only acceptable way of life.
To that end it is a subjugating, colonising, proselyting force.
It restricts freedom of thought, speech and action.
It offers inducements and incentives for it's followers to murder anyone speaking or acting against it's edicts. This has always been the case.
While it thrived in an age when the whole world was a cesspit of dictatorships, monarchies, tyrants and despots, it finds itself out if synch with a progressive, free thinking, more tolerant and inclusive world.
Islam and it's followers need to change its worldview and prism to align itself with the world as we find it today. Islam has a lot to offer in terms of humanitarian values, it is the parochial mindset adopted by is followers who hearken back to a golden age when such mindsets were common and acceptable, that is the greatest stumbling block to the development and progress of Islam and it's people.
If things do not change then Islam as community will be left behind to a point of irrelevance for all but it's most regressive followers. You see open minded and progressive thinking people beginning to question the precepts of the religion of their birth and even exiting it because they find the environment to be suffocating. This, no doubt, is as painful for their fellow Muslims as it is for them.
This is how religions regress and die.
Sadly, this will continue until either Muslims become more forward looking or Islam is relegated to an incorrigible irrelevance that is followed by none but those incapable of free thought, those prepared to follow anything for the fear of the consequences in the hereafter or those that are prepared to tolerate any wrong or injustice in their lives as long as they feel they are qualifying for a ticket to Jannat.
Either way it is a sad place Muslims have come to.
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