Great piece. I've wanted to write for a while about how American Muslims get race baited into supporting every degenerate movement of the left. If we dialed the hysteria down, we'd realize that we have far more in common with lib-right than we ever did with anything on the left.
Basically agree with everything here except the conversion thing. There is no invalid reason to accept Islam, and we are a wide tent encompassing those Allah favored more and those He favored less. The first disbelievers dismissed Nuh AS because his followers were weak. Highly likely some of them were weak for obvious reasons, like mental disability or crime. Still, we are a wide tent and Allahs care is vast-cast a wide net and take in whoever is willing.
Also I know this is addressed to American Muslims but I think it strongly applies to UK Muslims, conservatives as well. They could do nothing for years but bleat about Islamophobia as if it was somehow UK kuffar were being unreasonably upset at rape gangs and concert explosions. If you even said a word against Shamima Begum they'd jump on you (though recently it seems the mood has shifted a bit.)
So this victim mindset, opposite to the elite mindset exists among conservatives too (UK though.)
Anyways...this article was amazing putting into words what I've been thinking for a decade.
Great piece. I've wanted to write for a while about how American Muslims get race baited into supporting every degenerate movement of the left. If we dialed the hysteria down, we'd realize that we have far more in common with lib-right than we ever did with anything on the left.
Basically agree with everything here except the conversion thing. There is no invalid reason to accept Islam, and we are a wide tent encompassing those Allah favored more and those He favored less. The first disbelievers dismissed Nuh AS because his followers were weak. Highly likely some of them were weak for obvious reasons, like mental disability or crime. Still, we are a wide tent and Allahs care is vast-cast a wide net and take in whoever is willing.
Also I know this is addressed to American Muslims but I think it strongly applies to UK Muslims, conservatives as well. They could do nothing for years but bleat about Islamophobia as if it was somehow UK kuffar were being unreasonably upset at rape gangs and concert explosions. If you even said a word against Shamima Begum they'd jump on you (though recently it seems the mood has shifted a bit.)
So this victim mindset, opposite to the elite mindset exists among conservatives too (UK though.)
Anyways...this article was amazing putting into words what I've been thinking for a decade.
Pedantry, but there was another politically motivated attack on a democratic congressman ~10 years ago, still relevant enough to be mentioned.