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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
You make a good point, but I don't think it's right to conflate state-sponsored religion in a authoritarian regime like Egypt with moderate Muslims in Western countries. The government in Egypt (and other Arab countries) has wrapped itself in Islam for legitimacy, and so it is driven to punish atheism essentially as an attack on the state.
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I am doing no such thing. If extremist thoughts weren't tolerated by any muslim communities, would it be as safe to recruit in those communities? Do you think that the idea that any criticism of Islam or the prophet exists only in those places where it's literally against the law? Are you saying that other muslim communities with ties back to those places don't adopt those attitudes?
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