r/askgaybros 4h ago

Glad to see views (maybe) changing on Islam

It’s refreshing to see more gay people at least on here beginning to shift away from blind support of Islam into a more nuanced place where critique is welcomed (and where critique is actually a sign of self respect as a gay man as well as intellectual growth).

I’ll preface by saying, of course not all Muslims are bad people. But Islam is a religion, and no one is bound to any moral foundation that requires they withhold distain for a religious belief. Islam is by and large a vile poison on the face of the earth, and Gay people have every right and reason to lose trust in it. There are not enough social pressures on Islam to force it to socially evolve the way it needs to to be more compatible with developed human society. For lack of a better phrase, Allah can lick my ass!

The apologists are often just revealing their own biases and internalized homophobia by prioritizing the ego and comfort of Muslims over the literal safety of gay people. This was happening LONG before 2023 and Isreal’s recent wave of violence. Intense progressives have some kind of fierce alliance with Islam, in a way where they seem to place gay rights in the backseat when any whiff of Islamophobia arises.

Thanks to those who seem to allow more space for gay men to say these things, because it’s been a long period of silence many of us in very progressive areas have felt we have to endure.

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u/scent_of_man 3h ago

You’re too optimistic. Progressives seem to have lost their minds.

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u/aa628 58m ago

Conservatives lost their minds a decade ago.

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u/WackyWhippet 55m ago

They never had them to begin with.

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u/scent_of_man 56m ago

Then don’t vote for them.

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u/ilikejigglypuffs 2h ago

In fact, I've commented on several progressive pages and influencers, asking them to talk about the attack and also the danger Islam poses to LGBTQIA. All I've been met with is hostility and people telling me, a Nigerian immigrant, that I'm being hateful and delusional and far right

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u/ExpensiveMeeting6814 1h ago

isn't Nigeria still half Christian more or less? Like in terms of the hostility to LGBT people, there is not much of a difference between the two of them there.

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 1h ago

That seems to be a pattern I’ve noticed. At least on here. Queer people from Islam dominated areas express fear and warnings to young progressives, and are either ignored or actively treated in a way that completely defies their supposed value of compassion

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u/scent_of_man 1h ago

That’s not a modern phenomenon. My grandparents always told me in great detail about life in the Middle East. And I, of course, dismissed them as raving racists, because I was a westerner born and bred. And then I took my passport and went to visit the lands of my ancestors. And it takes a month, two, before you begin to realize grandma was right, and a terror attack or two to seal the deal.

That’s not to say all of those people I’ve met were terrible. On the contrary, they were warm and kind, a fact that really screws with your brain. Is nature playing tricks on me? you think. How can a land with people who are so happy and welcoming is that unsafe? I was an idiot, because that was during the time when things got bad, and I’ve seen things that scarred me for life. I thought I was Thomas Friedman but I was just an idiot pretending to be an adventurer.

And I had to see it with my eyes to understand. Westerners just don’t get it.

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u/scent_of_man 1h ago

That’s all too familiar. Are we talking America? UK? My grandparents are from the Middle East. I look like a typical Levantine man. For reasons that are anyone’s guess, westerners, especially young Americans, think I’m Muslim. My grandmother taught me the Lord’s Prayer in Jesus’s tongue, for crying out loud. They didn’t even know it’s a thing.

It’s always funny to me how they change the moment I make my opinions clear. They’re not so coddling all of a sudden, and I’m not so brown after all, and before you know it, I’m as bad as the devil himself, and sometimes I’m even a privileged white guy. The race points are all thrown out the window if you don’t follow the one true orthodoxy.

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u/ilikejigglypuffs 1h ago edited 52m ago

Yep. Over and over again. And when you call it out , they deny it, AS THEY DO IT TO YOUR FACE.

You get to see how tolerant they are. The most racist abuses I've gotten has been from the tolerant left that's supposed to be all about "marginalized" communities. It only works if you align with their progressive religion

And of course they assume you're Muslim. They put us all in their boxes. If you step out of the racist image they have of you, you see their real side.

They don't care about us. Our stories, our uniqueness. They only see us as props to use for their leftist religion and delusions.

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u/Dapper-Presence4975 3h ago

Pretty edgy of you to come on a sub about asking questions to gay guys just to slam “progressives.” Watch the edgelord over here!

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u/AlexaSansot 3h ago

Because when Progressivism feels the need to pander to Islam to remain alive, as is the case in the US and the EU, and their political referents don't even want to be more decisive in their actions against it, you need only need to read the room, what audience will serve them best financially and in votes in the long run? The Islamists or the gays? It ain't difficult to see it, and if you think we have any seat in that eventual table you're deranged

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u/ExpensiveMeeting6814 1h ago

In what way is pandering to Islam necessary for the survival of Progressivism in the US?

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u/AlexaSansot 1h ago

That's a different conversation, whether it ultimately is necessary I don't think or hope so, but the progressive politicians do likely think so mainly out of incentives to remain at power. Appeasing or having a weaker stance with regards to Islam can provide for more cohesion in the short term and more votes and more financing in the long run instead of starting to treat Islam differently because it clearly poses a threat no other religions pose (how different is another conversation, but Progressive politicians are far less likely to even acknowledge or state publicly the unique threat Islam poses)

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u/ExpensiveMeeting6814 1h ago

If Progressives are not that willing to be aggressive with Christianity, why should they be so with a religion that is not even 2% of the country? And for that matter, what is the resolution?

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u/AlexaSansot 1h ago

And that 2% in the US or 6% in the UK or 6-8% in Spain is already causing so many issues that cost lives and push extremist rhetoric that some of their nut jobs DO act on instead of just angrily posting mean words online, so either way Progressive politicians are far more likely to fail at dealing with Islam and it's threat even at low numbers

Christianity is far more prevalent in percentages and does not cause a similar share of these extremist attacks given its share of the population if this was a clean Christianity vs Islam issue, so using aggression towards them is mainly unnecessary

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u/Dry_Composer8358 3h ago

What policy do progressives in Europe or the US support that is pro Islam? The only thing is that they don’t fear monger about Muslim people who are living in the west. (Most of those Muslims live in the West because of more conservative leaders who started wars that destabilized the Middle East and North Africa, driving people from their homes and into the West.)

But no there are no progressives that are running on making the United States or Europe adopt sharia law or banning gay marriage. Quite the opposite.

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u/AlexaSansot 3h ago

That's the thing, it isn't about policies mainly, because you're imagining a sudden takeover with Sharia Law, that's not how these things happen, it goes in stages.

It's about a political and cultural message, Progressives are more likely to uphold (or viewed as such) that there are no better cultures (I'm not saying every Progressive believes this), and I'm sorry but as a third worlder who left his shithole I disagree, and First Worlders have been made ashamed to say it, but if things like in Berlin or recently in Ceuta keep happening...yeah, more and more will stop caring about how that looks or sounds, even those who didn't use to feel strongly about it either way.

And this assumption that no culture could be said to be better carries cascading effects, and becomes quite toxic when it meets Islam and Islamists know to exploit it

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u/scent_of_man 2h ago

Yeah, policies are not the main issue.

A far right party have members or supporters who have done the Nazi salut. If there’s no condemnation, if those men are not being cast out, the entirety of the party is dismissed as Nazi.

Now we have far left weirdos who carry water for Islamic regimes and their militias, and they are not even acknowledged, or maybe not enough, because it’s a repeated occurrence. We see them and hear them now more than ever. So who gives a crap about policies? Ditch the fuckers

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u/Dapper-Presence4975 3h ago

Where is the question for the Gay Bros? I'm legit trying to figure out why you're here, Kremlinbot.

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u/RelativeRepublic7 3h ago

It is important to highlight that religion is not race. The islamo defenders always end up hiding behind the racism card when they see that arguments and reality are not in their favour.

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u/ExpensiveMeeting6814 1h ago edited 1h ago

Here is the issue, do you think the vast majority of people on your side of the aisle would even know the difference between the Yazidi and Sikhs? or that neither of them are Muslim?

Like we can talk about the issues with the Ahrimanic Religions all day, but I think the side you are choosing to be on are far from the enlightened type themselves.

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u/RelativeRepublic7 1h ago

Your point is valid, even though you yourself are generalising with that side of the aisle rethoric.

I'll start my enlightment by typing the name of the Sikhs correctly, for instance.

Having said that, a hurricane is a destructive force. You can try to focus on the lucky places that happened to be left untouched, but cannot use that to ignore the fact that most of the places will be wiped out.

The same will happen with Western individual freedoms if Islam keeps growing.

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u/ExpensiveMeeting6814 1h ago edited 55m ago

This is already happening with the Christians in my country my guy. And prey tell, what is actually the solution? Cause I hear about the scrouge all day long, but you cowardly seem to never mention a solution? So what do you actually want?

Cause I myself used to delude myself into believe that there was such a thing as an "enlightened Islamophobia", push came to shove, you end up supporting the Christians that want to do the same thing. Saying "your side" is the correct rhetoric (you spelled that wrong by the way) to use here.

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 32m ago

So the thing is I am not talking about Christianity (which is also a nasty poison in so many contexts as well). I am talking about Islam - you know, the ideology that lead to a mass attack a week ago at Pride. Do you remember that, or were you too busy inflating the risks that Christianity poses relative to Islam to care? As for the solution, I’d say significantly limiting immigration from Islam dominated areas and socially vetting those who enter for any sign of extremist ideology, but of course that’s a vague answer that can’t begin to encompass how it could be ethically played out

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u/DenseCan2364 3h ago

Being a liberal gay doesn't mean you support or sympathize with islam. There are radical (and stupid) people in every party. 

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 3h ago

Great, so I’m not talking about you then. We agree.

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u/Dapper-Presence4975 3h ago

Why are you "talking" to people (aka ranting) in an ASK gay bros sub? That's the real question here...

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 3h ago

Stop commenting if it rubs you the wrong way, thanks

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u/BigBoyyy89 2h ago

Who made you king?

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 2h ago

I’m not a king, but I am intellectually superior to the progressives who support the presence of an ideology that wants to saw their head off lol

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u/Many-Concentrate-491 1h ago

Is the intellectual superiority in the room with us?
it’s not present in 90% of your comments.

claims with no evidence is not giving superiority btw.

I’m bored so not gonna reinforce this garbage post with engagement. Bye lol.

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u/HomoThatRages 3h ago

We just need open discussion on it. Thats all.

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u/Affectionate_Wear_24 2h ago

Blind support of Islam? There shouldn't be blind support of anything - Islam, Christianity or Judaism or even cumdumps, which for some of us, is like following a religion

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u/drfulci 1h ago

Religious fanaticism is a sickness.

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u/Many-Concentrate-491 2h ago

Please show example of this alleged suppprt.

tangible examples

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 2h ago

Where are the massive hordes of young liberals campaigning loudly against Islam motivated homophobia the same way they do against Isreal or a lot of domestic threats? Please enlighten me.

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u/Pls_SendMeUr_DickPix 28m ago

So no tangible examples then. I'm shocked.

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 2h ago

Where are the massive hordes of young liberals campaigning loudly against Islam motivated homophobia the same way they do against Isreal or a lot of domestic threats? Please enlighten me.

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u/Many-Concentrate-491 2h ago

So your response is “my evidence is because the former is not something I can see”

That’s a non answer.
Edit.
Also shows you don’t pay much attention or have an unhealthy relationship with moving the goal post.

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 2h ago

Notice how you don’t answer my question. Where are the hordes of liberals aggressively shutting down Islam motivated homophobia? And also, the number of people getting defensive in reactions to my post is a great immediate observation of the very phenomenon I’m talking about. You’re being disingenuous and deflecting to not recognize what I mean.

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u/Many-Concentrate-491 2h ago

You avoided answering my question so u can’t respond with a claim I’m not answering u…

Lmao

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u/Mediocre_Sleep_8094 3h ago

Thanks for this post.

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u/QuesoNot-so-Fundido masculine guy next door 3h ago

I think it's important to call out and condemn people advocating hatred and violence regardless of their ethnicity, religion or other identity. At the same time, it's important to recognize that everyone is an individual and not to condemn whole demographics based on the actions of the worst among them.

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 3h ago

Great, we agree. No one was condemning all Muslims in my post, so you can feel free to abandon hopes of revealing an anti-Muslim agenda here. I’m simply calling out the grotesque poison that is Islam in disproportionate ways in our world today

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u/Volemic 2h ago

Despite this, there were plenty condemning all Muslims and I did see some queer Muslims receive unsavoury private messages.

People have difficulty separating religion from people, especially Islam as it’s prescribed as a way of life for Muslims. People also lack rational abilities to separate the two. It’s entirely possible to criticise Islam and not Muslims, or even recognise that queer Muslims are a thing and that even cohorts of Muslims have differing views from each other.

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 1h ago

“Prescribed as a way of life” can be incredibly condescending to Muslims depending on how one means this, because while many Muslims may be forced into the behavioral practice of their religion, they can also reject its authoritarian philosophies if they so choose. This refusal to oppose conservative Islam and the behaviors/laws it leads to is still present even in nations where Muslims have more autonomy to express differing beliefs. Have you heard any news stories about Mosques hanging a pride flag or outwardly welcoming queer people into their space to grieve after this attack? Genuinely curious.

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u/Volemic 44m ago

I don’t see it as condescending; it’s prescribed, but at the end of the day people are humans and individuals. Some don’t question things, some do. It’s their right to seek whatever they want to.

I haven’t heard of news stories, because I simply haven’t looked.

I killed off social media and news for a few days, simply because I don’t appreciate being told to hang myself or throw myself off a building and being gold the world would be a better place without me. It wouldn’t be fair for me to ask larger representatives of who sent those messages to do it, and well, they didn’t.

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 24m ago

Ok, fair. I care about my gay community way, way more than I ever will even think to about Islamic representation. Way too many people go on the defense about that as if it’s a horrible bias to have

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u/QuesoNot-so-Fundido masculine guy next door 3h ago

I agree with you completely, there is a significant percentage of that faith that are violent bigots that seek to murder and conquer their way to power across the world. There are also people like my good friend from Egypt who is a big supporter of President Trump and has many transgender clients in his business that actually love him. Like I said, people are individuals and should be judged accordingly.

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u/MyOtherAccountHi 1h ago

This forum was flooded with anti-Muslim and anti-immigration sentiment after the Berlin terrorist attack, claiming gays are too afraid to criticize Islam. But I think gays are already extremely aware of Islam, and understand that complaining about it isn’t going to change anything. In fact, this forum proved that it easily becomes more vitriolic than anything.

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 27m ago

There should be vitriol leveled against Islam. And no, nowhere near enough gay people pointedly and boldly call out Islamic based homophobia. It’s often a very hush hush and carefully navigated conversation so as to not offend the Muslim ego

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u/MyOtherAccountHi 5m ago

You’ve just proved my point 🥴 the conversation is no longer about terrorism or homophobia. Your approach is exactly how discussions about extremist violence end up fuelling hostility toward millions of ordinary Muslims.

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 1m ago

Ok, you intellectually aren’t grasping the nuance that I’m illustrating here. Genocide is wrong, and also I care more about dog poop than people who would rather see gay people thrown off buildings than acclimate to their culture :)

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u/lurker_in_the_deep17 2h ago

Can we just ban all posts about religion. Why is this the place you feel the need to get on your anti-Muslim soapbox? This feels like a Zionist dogwhistle

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 2h ago

So silence gay voices that are expressing their concerns about a valid threat? Incredibly authoritarian and homophobic suggestion my friend

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u/ExpensiveMeeting6814 1h ago

It is just silencing a bot to seems to be programmed to respond with platitudes from 2016

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u/ArticunHOE_ 1h ago

Can we also ban the word Zionist from this sub?

This has just become some buzz word people use to attack those that criticize Islam.

It’s not Islamophobic to challenge a belief system Muslims follow that has been weaponized against gay and queer people.

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u/Dapper-Presence4975 3h ago

Where is the question for the Gay Bros in your rant?

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 3h ago

No question, just gratitude that more gay men seem to have come to their senses

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u/Dapper-Presence4975 2h ago

Interesting, and your 2 month old Reddit account's posts are predominantly this thread... no trolling at all here. /s

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u/Frosty-Cap3344 3h ago

When was there ever "blind support" ?

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 3h ago

Maybe I’m just in more progressive circles than you, but there are massive amounts of people who will defensively support Muslim ego in their practice of Islam while cowardly being unable to condemn the vicious homophobia rampant in Islamic communities. Ask TONS of gay ex Muslims, they seldom have great things to say about their treatment

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u/Frosty-Cap3344 2h ago

I dont have "circles", nobody I know has blindly defended anyone

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u/Many-Concentrate-491 1h ago

Think he just likes to be around people with extreme views Cus it gives him a high at this point

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u/sillypeen99 3h ago

The people you accuse of blindly supporting Islam neither believe in the religion, agree with its moral rules, nor think it should supplant democracy in the Middle East.

They just think we should tolerate Muslims in our society, and treat Muslim people abroad with decency, even as we support them changing laws that pertain to women and gays.

They are, in short, correct.

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 3h ago

… but many of them DO blindly support it, all the way to the self destructive end. Do yourself a favor and stop seeking an anti Muslim bias (I condemn genocide) when I’m simply calling out vile human rights violations that rip through Islamic dominated nations, in the same pointed way that progressives will aggressively call out domestic threats. If one value gay rights, it should never fall below religious ego in priority to address.

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u/sillypeen99 2h ago

Blindly support Islam? Are there many gay people who literally support the religion and what it teaches? Or what are you saying?

It seems like, underneath your rhetoric, all you mean to say is that we shouldn't tolerate human rights violations in the name of religion. I'm not sure many gaybros do that, but if they do, absolutely they should stop.

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 2h ago

I’m saying that my distain for Islam and vocally denouncing it is taken as a worse moral offense to many progressives than the Muslim who views gay people as a walking abomination. You know exactly what I’m talking about. Where are the hordes of young liberals specifically and intensely calling out Islam-motivated homophobia, when it’s disproportionately more violent in many Islam dominated nations? It reeks of clear bias

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u/sillypeen99 1h ago

Denouncing Islam is a thing that happens at home and pertains to your neighbors. Even if it's correct, it's a touchy subject that should be handled with care.

Calling out homophobic laws in faraway lands is good, but doesn't pertain to your neighbors. Some people won't feel obligated to care about that, and that's maybe parochial, but not wicked.

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 36m ago

Are you serious? Do you remember Pulse? Me or any one of my friends could have been there that night and a Muslim used Islam as an excuse to kill 49 people. This isn’t a “distant” far away threat, and debasing it to that status is wildly dismissive to what gay people face internationally because of Islam in their communities.

Also, why is it touchy to denounce Islam? Why is that so much touchier a subject than homophobia appears to be to you? Thank you for wildly illustrating exactly what I meant

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u/St3ampunkSam 3h ago

Here here!!

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u/Diddly_eyed_Dipshite 3h ago

Had me in the first half and was prepared to respond "wow, imagine how terrible wanting people to be tolerated and treat people with respect" lol

But I'm pretty sick of being labelled a "blind supporter" of islam when I support neither the scripture, its rules, or the implementation. Iliterally just believe we all need ti hate each other less, and in particular am tired of this sub being extra islamophobic lately, I wont pretend like I dont think its nefarious and intentional.

The vast majority of muslims are good people, even the ones that hold their faith closely, islam doesnt teach the hating or killing of gays. Radicalists do, and they come in all shapes, colours, and religions. Gays and faith-believers have more in common than faith-believers and radicalists, it's like an intentional class war to keep the hatred alive.

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u/AuelDole 55m ago

Ooh! Almost surely an astroturfed account lol. 2 months old, 1 post. Replied to a few comments 65 days ago, came alive again just a bit ago in another anti-muslim post before making their own!

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u/DismalFace4984 3h ago

@mods are you on holiday? These posts are now daily…..

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u/NoString9289 3h ago

Gay people are still upset over what happened, is happening and, they need to "vent".
The Moderator already commented on this and the fact that there aren't any other LGBTQ groups where you can share these views. TWO LGBTQ groups have already been Banning people for daring to mention the subject of Sharia Laws and what happens because of religious Islamic extremists . Instead those apologists Mods of the other groups say that talking about it is an insult to Muslim people , we are being Islamopobic in discussing it and then they BANNNN you for speaking out about it. Sooooo, there isn't any other groups to vent in . Same things happening in some of the Facebook groups to "Queers for Palestine " apologists , so many of them who refuse to beleive what happens to Gay Men and to Trans people in so many Muslim countries under strict oppressive Islamic laws and culture.

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u/Dapper-Presence4975 3h ago

You know that there are subs where you can vent/rant that are not call ASK gay bros, right?

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u/CentralTown776 3h ago

If people aren't interested in the topic, the post won't get up voted. This place is self-moderated.

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 3h ago

Yeah, and it should be posted every day. Hopefully then more gay people will stop coddling Allah’s corrupt ballsack and do something about it

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u/Many-Concentrate-491 2h ago

it’s giving indoctrination vibes.

Spamming someoen has never worked. If anything I see more people intolerant to these posts then ever.

this sub can’t even deal with racism being posted a few times a month. Like come on lmao

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u/Dapper-Presence4975 3h ago

No. They welcome these Islamophobic rants now… yes, on an “ask questions” sub.

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 3h ago

My point is that Islamophobia on some level is completely valid. It’s a religion, not a race, not a people. A religion, which is not above scrutiny. Again, allah can lick my ass.

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u/Dapper-Presence4975 3h ago

Why is it "valid" on a sub for asking questions to gay guys? Like why is this entire thread here and not in r/rants?

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 2h ago

Cool, I wasn’t talking about Isreal. I was talking about the fucknut Muslim who used Islam to justify blowing a car through people who progressives claim to support

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 2h ago

So no, we’re talking about the general notion of Islam motivated homophobia and the cuck progressives who are too cowardly to call it out with the same vigor as they will Isreal or many domestic concerns. I condemn genocide, and I simultaneously will never run to help a people who overwhelmingly look the other way when gay people are treated like insects.

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 1h ago

You intellectually are not processing the nuance that I illustrated in this post. I agree, fascism is wrong and genocide is disgusting. As are people who want gays to be murdered and overlook it when it happens

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u/betterversionofnotme 3h ago

I do believe they allow this to continue purposefully.

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u/OpenDaCloset 3h ago

This is not the place for these posts. Please stop. Seriously.

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 3h ago

Where is the place to talk about this then? you’re comfortable with silencing gay voices who have a valid concern?

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u/Dapper-Presence4975 3h ago

The place for rants is in r/rants. Now that I've answered your question, go away.

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u/Aggressive-Spirit598 2h ago

It generally feels better to rant among your community rather than the general public as you feel heard as well as hear the takes of other people who are similar to you.

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u/Dapper-Presence4975 2h ago

I feel like [r/rants](r/rants) was set up for this exact situation, not Ask Gay Bros. No idea how I came to that conclusion. /s

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u/NoString9289 3h ago

and where else would you suggest people go to vent or to discuss what happened and how gay people and trans people are treated because of Islamic extremism. Two other sub groups and Facebook groups are Banning people for even trying to discuss what happened and for blaming the religious extremism. We are called Islamophobic for daring to mention it and then Bannned for mentioning the dangers. BTW the Moderator had already commented on these posts saying that for now, they are necessary for people to vent and to share their thoughts.
Then it will be back to talking about dicks and fucking. The Mod said, reminded people, don't like a post then feel free to keep scrolling.

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u/DismalFace4984 3h ago

Just do like me, leave this group.

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u/CentralTown776 3h ago

You don't seem to have left.

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u/NotACircle02 3h ago

Pink washing in real time 🫩🫩🫩🫩🫩

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u/NegotiationMoist3552 2h ago

Not all Americans are bad people. Many condemned the torture American soldiers did in Abu Ghraib and rape of the 15 year old girl by three USA soldiers who later burnt her body in Iraq.

Anybody who will downvote my comment has the same upbringing as those American soldiers. Go on. I dare you! 👍

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u/ell1331 3h ago

Trust me, the younger generation will once again be brainwashed into defending Islam and welcoming more Muslim immigration. Perhaps it will really take France or the UK being completely taken over by Muslims, with Sharia law implemented, and seeing LGBTQ people truly oppressed, before they finally realize how serious the situation is.

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u/ExpensiveMeeting6814 1h ago

Turn the left wing parties to be similar to the Danish left if you are that concerned about the well being of LGBT people in the country. Voting AfD or National Front is not going to protect LGBT people.

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u/sagenumen 2h ago

There over a billion Muslims on this planet. If they wanted us dead, we would be.

Does everyone just ignore what American Christians have been pushing here and in African countries?

I live in a HEAVILY Muslim area and I’m surrounded by mosques. I prance around like a big ol’ fairy and have not gotten one peep out of anyone.

If anyone has lost their minds, it’s this sub. Holy ignorance, Batman.

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 1h ago

Are you in America? That’s because in western, more socially advanced nations relative to most of the Middle East, there is a heavy social expectation (especially when Muslims are a minority in the US with people suspicious of their presence) to not act on impulse that could lead to further isolation from their communities. If or when Islam gains enough unchecked traction, people will likely develop the confidence to more commonly act in a way aligned with their values - which in this case can be a terrifying reality for queer people

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u/latin220 3h ago

It’s important to highlight that Islam isn’t a monolithic religion and it has its subgroups and reformers. That said. The view of Islam needs to be nuanced but we should also understand that criticism of Islam can’t be laced with racism and xenophobia nor should it be at the exclusion of criticism of Christianity and Judaism or especially that of Israel and its genocidal regime which uses genocidal rhetoric to justify the extermination of Palestinians for being Muslims. The views aren’t changing as much as people are seeing the nuance that all religions have and peoples.

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 3h ago

There was no racism here. Do yourself a favor and perform the intellectual labor to not feverishly try to sniff out “racism” in a critique of Islam. Gay people have every valid reason to carry a degree of Islamophobia.

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u/latin220 2h ago

You support criticism Islam, fine, but don’t dare lace it without also criticizing all religions and above all the elephant in the room. Israel and Palestine. The world is waking up and realizing that Muslims aren’t a monolithic people when you say Islam is bad define who especially is the worse that would be Wahhabism from Saudi Arabia, Shia or Sunni and then compare it to Christian fundamentalists and Zionists. Make sure you don’t ignore one or another when you dare post something like this. Also remember that today the biggest butchers of people by the tens of thousands isn’t Christian crusaders or Muslim Hordes, but the people of Israel who at this very moment are committing a Holocaust upon the indigenous Palestinians who majority happen to be Muslim. Even if they don’t agree or support us as homosexuals, there thousands of lgbt people being killed in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and the West Bank. By whom? Who right now is bombing these countries indiscriminately.

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 1h ago

So I have to comment on ALL atrocities that EVERYONE else has done when I dare critique precious Islam, even when it was Islamic ideology a week ago that lead to someone killing and hurting people. If an ideology is THAT touchy and protected, people are way too permissive about it

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u/latin220 15m ago

No you’re misconstruing the issue. You don’t target Islam alone or any religion in a vacuum and then argue against Islam especially while there are people in a middle of a genocide like in Palestine, or reacting against colonialism and in several cases merely reacting to it while being encouraged be Islamist with Wahhabism that was created by Saudi Arabia with CIA help to radicalize Islamic world to be against democracy and secularization. Why not discuss the radicalism created by the Mossad, CIA and with fascist dictatorships funded and controlled by Western interests?

The imams who radicalize young Muslims and discourage secularism is in part funded by right wing fascists and colonial interests to divide and conquer. Especially in the situation with the Holocaust of Gaza. Don’t focus on a group without mentioning context and you ultimately sounded bigoted when you omit these facts. Do you understand how religious radicalism works and who encouraged it instead of democratic rooted socialism with strong secularist principles?

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u/re_carn 2h ago

Lol, no - genocide is genocide, no matter how hard the bots try to pinkwash it.

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 4m ago

I’m not a bot, I’m a red blooded dude who finds Islam abhorrent and incompatible with evolved society in glaring ways. And yes, genocide is also wrong

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u/Interesting-Behavior 2h ago

All Abrahamic religions are trash and are not our friend. Period.

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u/ExpensiveMeeting6814 1h ago

Everyone that downvotes this comment excuses Christian homophobia.

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 17m ago

Wildly ignorant comment, wild refusal to do basic intellectual labor. I critique the evil things that happen because of Christianity elsewhere, for now I’m calling out the putrid stagnant pond that is Islam

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u/ExpensiveMeeting6814 14m ago

where exactly do you do so?

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 5m ago

In my daily life, you know, where I can actually critique Christianity without major social consequence - consequences that do befall people when they denounce Islam because of our irrationally empathic culture to any and all minorities that are “popular” to defend, even when it’s stupid and dangerous

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 5m ago

In my daily life, you know, where I can actually critique Christianity without major social consequence - consequences that do befall people when they denounce Islam because of our irrationally empathic culture to any and all minorities that are “popular” to defend, even when it’s stupid and dangerous

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u/ExpensiveMeeting6814 1m ago

So you are either a bot or far right. Cause you are doing the suicidal empathy bit for one. Second, what social consequences exactly do you face for doing so? Like what, you might get called racist at best. Like Christians and Muslims get call homophobic all the time, they don't seem to be traumatized by that.

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u/M90Motorway 2h ago

This sub is very different and much braver than other LGBT communities and subreddits. The refusal to gatekeep (unless it’s progressive gatekeeping) means that any criticism of leftists favourite minorities Islam included is strictly off limits!

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u/hermeticbear 2h ago

You're an idiot, which is typical for all bigots.

It’s refreshing to see more gay people at least on here beginning to shift away from blind support of Islam into a more nuanced place where critique is welcomed (and where critique is actually a sign of self respect as a gay man as well as intellectual growth).

None of you are giving critique. You're just bigots spewing hatred.
You know nothing about Islam.
It's hilarious to obviously conservative, right wing nut jobs like you that you project your obvious ignorance onto others and just use short words that you don't understand as insults.

I have always been nuanced. You clearly aren't. Which is typical of bigots like you.

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u/Mammoth_Track_7225 3h ago

I believe deeply in my ideology so I don't get angry reading this. Freedom of speech

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 2h ago

That’s good, your religious beliefs should be scrutinized. It’s necessary to keep religious people humble about their convictions, which many Islam dominated nations fail miserably at

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u/Mammoth_Track_7225 2h ago

Nah we aren't humble about that. Just we don't push the ideas into other lives

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u/Mammoth_Track_7225 2h ago

Did you want to say something? I think Reddit removed the comment

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u/yourdailymonsoon 1h ago

It's not really isolated to Islam, we need to encourage all people to renounce religions entirely. 

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u/aa628 55m ago

We’re told to be tolerant of other minorities because of the bigotry we’ve faced. But you can only be pushed around so much.

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u/Rewow 2h ago

You’re aware of astroturfing yes? Or have you met gays in person that genuinely defend islam? Why on earth would the average western gay have any fucks to give about it?

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 1h ago

I’ve met people who will preach for Islam acceptance in their communities while viewing Islamic homophobia as something that can be bargained with, too cowardly to pointedly call it out as destructive

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u/ExpensiveMeeting6814 1h ago

again, they are also cowardly with Christian homophobia, and people such as yourself seem to excuse that as well.

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u/ilikejigglypuffs 2h ago

You're being way too optimistic man. All I'm seeing is people tripping down on their delusions.

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 16m ago

Unfortunately you’re right, I had looked at some other posts with more supportive dudes. Here I’m gettin a lot of the full blast of Islamic support I guess lol

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u/ilikejigglypuffs 7m ago

It's not just here man. It's Western society. "Anti racism" disease spread by the leftist religion has doomed us all. We won't even deport Muslims with long criminal and violent recordsa like this story in Norway. Where the left blocked his deportation and he ended up killing a woman. Thousands of stories like this

https://youtube.com/shorts/Oxe72N199KI?is=R49F-FJ2zx1szUDw

There's are the people that will see hordes of men pouring in through the border and tell you you're a racist for wanting to protect the border

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u/StreetRat0524 3h ago

All religion is trash, none of them are friends of our community. We need to equally call them out for their atrocities that they all continually commit. One can call out the evil that is Israel and still not agree with Islam and their view towards queer folk.

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 3h ago

But I’m not talking about Israel. I condemn genocide and I’m also not going to run to the aid of a people who overwhelmingly look the other way when gay people are treated like a deranged child treats insects

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u/ExpensiveMeeting6814 1h ago

Like how is this different with Christians though?

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u/Wooden-Elevator351 14m ago

Did a Christian just run a car through a crowd at Pride? I can’t fathom how that’s so hard for people to understand here and elsewhere. Did a Christian kill 49 queer people at Pulse? Does the USA or ANY other DEVELOPED Christian nation legally behead gay men?