'Conservative influencer' moment
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So if he had spent a week in Egypt, they'd have spit on him at least twice?
Honestly, yeah. Certainly Christian women would be groped going to a store, I wouldn't be surprised if he got spit on going anywhere near anything considered culturally Islamic.
Religious Tolerance is a liberal concept at best, and a recent western folkway at worst.
Honestly, no. I'll be the last one to defend Islam, but this sort of thing simply doesn't happen in Islamic countries. Lots of other problems though. Do you know how many Christians visit Egypt and Turkey, not to mention the native (actually native) Christian population?
Absolutely no one would say: "hey, Egypt treats Christians very well, I only got spat on once during my one week trip". This guy is an absolute tool.
I'm aware of that, and the importance, within Islam, is that the Kufar stay in their designated communities, as a minority, that doesn't make trouble, and doesn't voice complaint when they get abused.
Anti-Christian, and anti-Western, hatred in Turkey is rife. If you're American, you should expect to be spit on, and more likely violently mugged. You may not remember but there was an incident where a mob of radicals attacked and nearly took 3 US Marines hostage who had gone on shore leave. The Navy and State Department put out warnings about that shit, I have no idea why they were taking such a risk of going to such a local-heavy area in Turkey. Egypt is a bit better, and more tolerant of foreign tourists, but that doesn't mean that Muslims don't see you as a kind of dog taking up space in their country.
As for the native Christians, it's seething hatred if they are outside of their local communities, which have been kept purposefully isolated for centuries, lest they upset a Muslim child and get fucking lynched, like what routinely happened to the Sikhs.
If Shilo Hendrix was a Christian in a Muslim country, and she called a Muslim boy a nigger, she and her family wouldn't have survived the night.
I think most middle-class white women would say this word for word.
Two things:
So not just Americans, but American soldiers? Lest you think that I'm saying that "they had it coming", no, but surely you can understand that reasons for hating American soldiers are very different from "Christians".
Not a phrase I ever expected to hear in any context.
We're talking about concrete actions. If Americans supposed Christians visiting Egypt get spit on, on a regular basis, I certainly haven't heard about it. Yet this absolute tool says that it's such a great trip because they only got spit on ONCE.
Happens unfortunately.
They might, except for the fact that they won't get spit on. You citing this absurd demographic, I think, means that you realize how stupid the tool's comment was.