re: #276 capitalist piglet

You are confusing the lovely people with an ideology that they have chosen to pick and choose beliefs from. It is a completely different thing when that same ideology is imposed by theocrats who believe they are doing “god’s will.” A big chunk of my life was spent working in Muslim cultures in Europe, Africa, and, yes, Indonesia. The people I met in those places were as fine as any Nebraskan Christian, Texan Jew, or Californian cultist. But when Islamic ideology becomes the law of the land, disaster follows, regardless of how wonderful the individuals are.