Originally Posted by
Odelia
Well I saw portions of the video and I got the gist - polytheism would've made Afghanistan and other Islamic countries worse places than now. Tbh I really doubt that they would have atrocities as worse as the Taliban, ISIS, Hamas and Al Qaeda. The Muslim Skeptic then started to throw shade on the Jews, rather conveniently. I mean it's a really biased video. The guy also believes in death for apostates (admitted this in an interview). I've seen some of his stuff. He's an Iranian. So sad, because he looks pretty nice and is well spoken! But the things he says are really disconcerting. He goes on about how other religions are too liberal cos they allow too much human rights (and he puts a photo of a creepy drag queen lmao), and yet cries when people say Islam is a violent religion (dude, you just said you don't want Islam being too liberal, so you better accept that ppl see Islam as completely the opposite of liberalism - which is, well um, violent and oppressive). He's a hypocrite. He can't have it both ways.
Irano-afghan history is rich with art, culture, medicine, astronomy and good knowledge. These people could have stayed with Zoroastrianism, buddhism and other milder religions in their land. I'm not sure what was so special about Semitic religions, particularly Islam. Perhaps maybe they were afraid and had to convert. Even afghans and iranians today are victims of Islam and want more rights, but people like this "muslim skeptic" wouldn't want that cos "freedom is too liberal". India and Sri Lanka are not perfect countries really, but they're not as bad as Afghanistan and Iran, with their polytheism. So what's this guy's point really? I'm not arguing, I'm just saying.
P.S. Iranians/persians are actually very liberal and moderate in the west. Rarely hear of them doing terrible things in a society. It's mostly Arab muslims, somalis and pakis. Afghans to a lesser degree, but they're more quiet even if they have pernicious beliefs.
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