Islam is Not Just a Religion - it's a Political Ideology
To Present Ideology Just as Faith is Fraudulent
To think of Islam just as of faith, religion, is both morally wrong and factually incorrect, and overall irresponsible. Islam isn't just that. Islam (just like Christianity) is also a political ideology, and pretty radical one as such. This ideology promotes, among everything, oppression of women and execution of gay men. Homosexuality is a 'mortal sin' in this ideology, same as 'blasphemy' (doubting the ideology). This ideology is very toxic and very dangerous. Jihadism, mass execution of gay people and 'blashpemers', and female genital mutilation of young girls are the most morbid applications of this ideology under its 'sharia law', but there are much more maybe less horrifying but nevertheless still toxic Islamic practices as well.
Now, I'm not saying that EVERY Muslim signs up to this shitty ideology and all its toxic applications by default (though I haven't met any Muslim who looked favorable upon gay marriage for example but not all of them were rooting for murdering or imprisoning of gay people at least). However, this ideology is still an inherent part of Islam, just like prayers and rites. To ignore this part of Islam completely and to present Islam only as a faith with 'prayers and rites' is not only factually incorrect, it's also FRAUDULENT. It was a greatest fraud of Western Left 'progressivism' over the last decade.
How the Left executed this fraud? Well, the gist of it was to ignore the political ideology behind Islam and to present it just as 'faith', and hence to promote it in the West under the guise of 'religious freedom'. Western Left refused to condemn Islamic countries living under 'sharia law' for their crimes against humanity. They refused to look into ideological motivation behind Jihadist crimes in the West as well, presenting them as 'individual terror acts of madmen' instead. Anyone who tried to raise issues of Jihadism, 'sharia law' and fundamental Islam and its dangers overall, was immediately accused of trying to 'frame vulnerable Muslim minority', and subsequently denounced as 'racist and Islamophobic'. Simple but vicious technique.
As a result of this fraud, same as of irresponsible Leftist immigration policies, many European countries (France and Sweden especially) now face constantly increasing amounts of Jihadist terror attacks, also immigrant-based gang and drug crime, increasing cases of female genital mutilations, and homophobic assaults by Muslim immigrants. Sweden is openly deemed the most dangerous place in Europe at this point due to its high levels of immigrant-based crimes, and in France military openly warns of possibility of civil war over Islam. Even UK despite Brexit faces increased homophobic assaults in London, and Muslim parents consistently protesting LGBT+ inclusion in education in Birmingham. All of this thanks to Leftist irresponsible immigration policies and moral fraud about Islam and Islamism.
What's more horrifying, the Left aren't learning shit out of it, and people STILL VOTE LEFT in Europe for some incomprehensible reason for me. Thus, the Left had won recent German election. In Sweden, the current Leftist government survived non-confidence vote despite bringing Sweden into the bottomless pit of immigrant-based street crime. Moreover, Finnish Leftist government repatriated Al Hol adult Jihadists and plans to increase refugee quota as well despite having a warning example of Sweden neighbor. It's funny how Finnish government took 'Swedish warning' COVID wise but completely ignored it Islamism-wise. It seems Lefties take only that which suits their ideology and cognitive bias, and ignore that which contradicts it.
Anyway, if the Lefties won't stop their Great Islamist fraud, if they won't stop accepting millions of Muslim refugees and then catering to them and their Islamist ideology, and if people won't stop voting Left in Europe, Europe is doomed. In just ONE generation Europe would be living under 'sharia law', and 'progressive' Left and their corrupt media would be telling you how 'good thing it is' and how 'racist and Islamophobic' everyone who doesn't want to live under it. After all, gay men who don't want to be executed and women who don't want to be genitally mutilated are just 'bigots and white supremacists', right. Gods, how much do I despise Western 'progressive' Left.
P.S. I again had written this piece two years ago originally but it gained a new relevance now on the back of HAMAS unprecedented massacre of almost two thousands Jews in Israel. This was also a direct result of toxic Jihadist ideology - a Jihad against Jewish ‘infidels’.