I don’t care how many downvotes this post gets because every time I post something about Islam, I get people commenting and reporting the same dumb shit. For example, on my previous post were the meme said that “Islam is not the religion of peace”. We had a user report that meme for being hate speech. Really, have you guys even read the Quran. There are literally tons of verses about killing people for not believing in the faith. In fact, these verses are the reason why we get terrorist groups like ISIS an Al-Qaeda. We also had another user report a similar post for being racist despite the fact that it has nothing to do with race. I understand that most Muslims are warm loving people but that is not an excuse to not call out religion for what it actually is. What I find even more funny is that I posted one of the same memes on r/EXMUSLIMMEMES and r/atheistmemes over at reddit as well as s/atheistmemes over at Squabblr and people seemed to have no issues. I am honestly convinced that the people in this instance are dumber than the people on reddit and that’s really saying something. Also, one final note. If you are a Muslim, and you don’t do any of the shit described in my memes (well actually these are not my memes they are just memes I stole from other people) I am not talking about you. I am talking about those who use religion to justify immoral acts. So don’t be offended if you are not an offender.
But you’re not posting memes about Islam. You’re posting memes trying to make the words ‘muslim’ and ‘terrorist’ interchangeable. Maybe it’s just me but I thought ‘atheist memes’ would be about criticising the ideas theist religions have or the hypocrisy theist religions can display. Not attacking an entire religion because of the behaviour of a minority of its adherents. By the same token I wouldn’t make memes trying to equate Catholicism with terrorism because historically some Catholics killed a lot of Jewish people.
Attack the religious ideas Islam holds but in the same way not all christians think stoning adulterers to death is a good idea, not all muslims think flying planes into buildings is a good idea and posting these dog whistle memes isn’t really an atheistic action as it isn’t tackling any religious tenet that Islam states.
That is not my intention. I usually try my best to attack the religion not the people who follow these religions as religion has had a negative impact on our society.