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Europe has several successful Democratic Socialists countries.
They are Democratic Socialist countries that have a mixture of Capitalism and Socialism. You seem to mean pure Socialism with an authoritarian government.
Well? Maybe some people had bad experiences or have other reasons to feel that way? Although I do understand what you’re saying.
I dunno - I'd characterize some of the claims made about Islam in this thread as "irrational fear".
Irrational fear and irrational hatred are hard to distinguish. Classically the "phobias" are debilitating mental conditions.
If what they set forth was meant to be secular, why did they mention God so many times in the state constitutions?
www.pewresearch.org
"Phobias" are also just a derogatory label people use to slander those making a valid argument against something.
Pray like your life depended on it. Pray for their conversion and salvation.
No. Phobias are real mental diseases or conditions.
In context here, we're talking about the First Amendment and the federal constitution. This is the thing Landon Caeli is going to have to amend.
But we have a common foundation, including a shared culture at it's root and I like you as a person, as well as your entire religious community.
That's why I'm not against them, personally, as human beings. I am against the ideology / religion. I would argue that with such an ideology as Islam, extreme caution must be exercised, that's different from every other ideology or religion on the planet. This is special scenario, that can't be broadbrushed into any 'like' categories, because there is nothing truly 'like' it.
No, it's the same as with any other religion, with the possible exception of Bhuddism, maybe. The Christians religion, for example, has been in the past as warlike and intolerant as any present day Muslim sect.
The "protected status" you speak of is essentially the normal rights religious organizations have to organize in our country. Without this official recognition status group organizing is difficult and their ministers can officiate legal weddings, etc. The 50k limit is a mechanism to deny the rights of small religious groups. 50,000 is just under 1% of the population.
A condition they share (less than 1% Muslim) with all of the former Warsaw Pact regions north of the former Ottoman empire and west of the Russian SSFR. (The other rest of the Soviet Union, including Russia, contains many regions with ethnic groups that were Muslim long before they were conquered by the Tsars. Ukraine would have a larger Muslim population, but Stalin ethnically cleansed the Tartars from Crimea to Siberia and then repopulated Crimea with Russians.)
That's not how DNA works.
Cognitive categorization is a form of a mental abstraction, that is normal in human communication, but isn't necessarily objectively true. It would be like saying shooting stars and other stars are all stars.... They're not! A shooting star is typically a free-flying tiny object, the size of a pea, or a grain of sand, which is nothing like an actual star. The common terms and vague understandings, are mere abstractions of thought.
