You have a point with this, although us softies only came in
later to try and see if any kind of gap could be bridged for the sake of conversation. This isn't always because of PC liberalism, sometimes it is simply because an inside perspective, no matter how biased, emotional, or distorted can be insightful and interesting if you have the context to read it properly. This is why videos showing the internal workings of ISIS are interesting- especially when filmed from their perspective. I can say that my reasons are self-serving: a window into Islam is something that I rarely get and the validity of the opinions weren't very relevant to me. Only learning about how Islam sees itself was. Collectively we just got the psychology of
@Ntwadumela.
And contrary to your claims, while the "kid gloves" may be present, the
vast majority of the user base is anti-Islamic and has operated no holds barred (which doesn't concern me either way, really.) I seriously doubt that any one is easier on Islam simply because the user base has a large subset of Christians or something (i.e. not a "lone minority") and everyone just feels bad for the poor little Muslim(s) that nobody loves. I assume that you just meant to say that Christianity is safer target socially,
outside of the Farms, but I find it odd that those same rules, in your mind, would apply here. I certainly haven't witnessed ANYONE'S religion being handled with loving care. The idea sort of makes me chuckle. I think you were just shocked to find anyone at all who even tolerated Muslims, as that behavior is rare on sites so linked to the Chans, and assumed that your safe-space had been compromised.
While it is impossible to say for certain, I would peg most Kiwis as fedora-tippers of a soft or hard variety. Then again, I am as much a fanatic as any fanatic ever was and anything short of "church every Sunday" looks effectively atheistic to me.
What
@autisticdragonkin is attempting to say, I believe, is that Islam drifted towards
fundamentalism in the latter half of the early modern era, which is true. Islam became more radical (in comparison to the faiths around it) as it lost power and legitimacy. The rise of conservative Islamic schools particularly in Africa helped speed this process along, aided in no small part by the British and French conquests. The conquest of Arabia by the House of Al-Saud was really the death knell for modern Islam, as the kings made sort of a Devil's Deal with an extremist desert prophet in exchange for fanatical church support.
Although I would dispute the idea that Islam was ever really liberal or irreligious by any modern sense of the word or even in a contemporary sense. It just traditionally concerned itself with amassing riches, collecting the jiyza tax, and fueling the expansion of an endless serious of Bedouin dynasties. If Islam then displayed the degree of lust for mass conversion it does now however, I doubt there would be a lot of the world left to dispute ISIS.
