It’s boring to me since it’s very easy for me to see the faults of a religion that I have no association with.

I am wondering if there are a lot of exmuslim people here or if it’s people raised in a christian world that just have a specific gripe with islam.

I was raised in a part of the world mostly shaped by christianity and so I was hoping to see more examination of that.

  • sexy_peach@feddit.deOPEnglish
    34·
    1 year ago

    So you’re saying that there’s people here that were raised in muslim dominated societies and are posting the anti muslim posts? I wouldn’t have any issue with that. But so far in this thread nobody said this was their experience.

    So I still believe that it’s people who were raised like me posting the anti muslim memes.

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Ffs you do not need to have personally suffered to point out problems. I wasn’t raised in an Islamic tradition either that doesn’t mean I can’t yell about it.

    • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      88·
      1 year ago

      Do you need to have been raised in Clearwater, FL in order to criticize Scientologists or Salt Lake City, UT to criticize Mormons?

        • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          I agree with you that the ex-[insert religion here] content tends to be better informed on that specific group and brings a valuable perspective due to their experiences. Bryce Blankenagel is one example for Mormonism that comes to mind for me, I enjoy hearing what he has to say on their history and practices. At the same time, I don’t think it’s necessary to have been part of those groups or to know every facet of their belief system to post about them, particularly in a meme community such as this. It certainly helps when you know the subject material but growing up in a different community and environment does not disqualify you from being able to criticize it.

          As it relates to this chain of replies, someone raised around mostly Christian influences who gets on here to poke fun at Islam or Judaism is less likely to be speaking from complete ignorance since they share common origins. You have to go further back to find it than when Catholics and Protestants are trading barbs but, as Pons_Aelius points out, they’re Abrahamic religions and have no shortage of common features worthy of ridicule.