She met him when she was 25.

I just checked and she met her husband when she was 25. For me the meme just comes out as classical American moralism.

Is it saying she was underage when she started a relationship with her husband (I don’t know who she is, so I can’t check), or that what consenting adults do is other people’s business and they should have no autonomy over their bodies?

Wait… that’s what ml stands for??? I got here because it advertised itself as being for opensource software enthusiasts haha

I don’t know much about Lemmy and I’m new here, but on Mastodon there seem to be just an illusion of federation because it’s actually ruled by peer-pressure. Instance A doesn’t like instance B so it defederates from it (absolutely fair), then it goes and tell instance C to also defederate from B else its going to tell instance D, E and F to defederate from C, and so on… remember when people bullied mastodon.lol admin into closing his 18k members instance just because he didn’t want to ban users for liking the Harry Potter game?

I feel like the Fediverse has even more thought police than regular social media.

My point is that what we fear bible‑thumpers can do, qur’an‑thumpers are already doing in several parts of the world, so they must be treated as an equal threat.

I love Handmaid’s Tale, I suggest you reading Persepolis as well, this is one is a true history though.

I never claimed to have Muslim friends though, just arab friends :P
About religions, I’m a “phobe” of them all.

I’m sure some are, actually in the last Israeli incursion in Lebanon our government sent planes to rescue several of our citizens that were there and majority seemed to be Muslim, but they were probably part of a newer immigration and I’m not sure if there are communities or if it’s individual families that immigrated, because the historical mass immigration that we had here (which started in the 1880s) and founded a strong community was actually running from Muslims. As I said, it’s the largest Syrian and Lebanese population outside their own countries, it’s not just some small community, so they are very well spread and integrated, they even founded our most important hospital (which, by the way, is called Sírio-Libanês). How do I know? Well, turn out I went to college just to study history, but I do personally know Syrian/Lebanese descendants because, as a I said, they are not few, I went to school with several, they introduced me to arak, great times, also my mom’s godfather was Lebanese… but that doesn’t matter because I’m sure you already know everything about me and my country’s history.

I’m always amused by the amount of people who think Muslim is a race… my country has the largest Syrian and Lebanese population outside their countries, all very cool people with the most delicious restaurants and a very proud of their culture… none Muslim, though. The immigration actually started with people fleeing from Ottoman religious persecution.
I miss the pan-Arabism, but the USA has managed to slowly crush all secular regimes and groups in the region, first by training and arming radical religious militias to fight the Soviets, and then doing that just to take control of the region’s resources, and all that was left were destroyed cultures ruled by religious fundamentalists.

Yeah, yeah, all these books say do A and don’t do A and the hypocrite choose which he likes better to say which is right and who’s the true Scotsman… theoretical or historical contexts matters little on street-level reality. Meanwhile, I can safely say all the crap I want about Christianism and even wear anti-Christian symbols, however one must watch his back if he does the same with Islam.

I thought that by always referring to books in the plural, calling it the desert trilogy, and mentioning the Dark Ages, it was obvious that I’m not singling out the burning of the Qur’an as good… in my country, it’s not Muslims who have infected politics and try to push religious law, but a sect of fundamentalist Christians… yet, the laws they want pale in comparison to sharia, so I feel sorry for countries with people on the streets calling for sharia.

You are asking the wrong group to stop being asshole*

Burning religious books is a reaction to religious people being assholes… when they are not assholes people don’t burn their books. It reminds me this cartoon I saw once, a priest beating a guy with a huge cross calling him sinner, infidel, or whatever, and then the guy gets fed up and takes the cross from the priest and breaks it, then the priest starts crying religious intolerance.

She is pretending the Muslims are ok with it and he is just being silly and juvenile and no one cares, but in reality Muslims have already rioted and murdered several people for it.

Yeah, the real reason is that the followers of these books want to push their beliefs onto others, turn them into laws, and ignoring them won’t make them go away. In every place where the followers of these books became the majority, the minorities are extremely repressed. The last time we were entirely ruled by those books, it was known as the Dark Ages, but there are several other countries currently living in their own Dark Ages because of the same desert trilogy. That book literally says its followers should kill me and others just because of the way they were born, so fuck it, it deserves no respect from anyone, it has nothing to do with race, it’s 100% religion.

Thank you for showing the difference between the magical land of the internet and the real world.

If people following those books could stop trying to impose their stupid beliefs on others, that’d be great… You don’t see anyone burning Hindu, Buddhist, and Taoist texts, do you? Well, I mean, except for when we see Muslims destroying historical and archaeological sites of these and other religions because they’re not their religion…

because it goes against lemmy.ml ToS of no homophobia, no sexism, etc

Yep, they are afraid of violent fundamentalists but also of liberals trying to cancel them…