I suppose it is a bloke thing. In the days before internet when you had make your own conversation there were four topics mostly covered by sixth form type boys. Sport(football mostly but other sports if they hated football), sex, (women/girls) , religion and politics. The only ones who didn't talk about this stuff were guys actually having sex. Sport, sex, religion and politics are tribal. Blokes pick a side.
There's some truth to what you say here but considering the woman you are replying to regularly engages on the topics of religion and politics (as do most of the women on this forum, and a damn good number of women I know offline and independent of the internet, thankfully), I gotta say that at least in this context that's a bullshit response.
I might be wrong above but the fact that there is - and there is no word to describe this yet - certain men who are racist towards other men of another colour but not the women. So they are sorta racist/sexist - are they rexist?. Must be a better word out there. I think there are much fewer women who think the same way.
The word is horny racists.
Obviously it is not supported by the core gatekeepers of CEMB imo because it does not give the right image that CEMB wants to portray - I have no idea who these people CEMB have in mind. I don't think they want to see this debate because it gives a feel of old-school battles. Like - shit they still can't stop talking about Israel/Palestine these ex-muslims can't have moved on much. It happens in other types of thread too.
Personally, think there are plenty of Muslims who have left Islam, know that is bullshit but feel that their sense of 'morality' on the question of Israel/Palestine cannot be awashed away with it. We appreciate that the Palestinians can be their own worst enemies but what the Isreali's are doing is just Nazism Lite.
Now you're making more sense. I can say with all certainty that my support of Palestinian liberation is not now nor has it EVER been predicated on, or even related to, religion. I'm not Hindu either but I support the rights of the Tamil people against their largely Buddhist oppressors (even though if I were to choose between Hinduism and Buddhism I'd easily pick Buddhism). If more attention is paid to the struggle in Palestine than other places perhaps one might consider the crucial, and indeed primary, role of the world's most powerful empire in this situation for those of us who think imperialism is a really, really bad thing. The US doesn't give nearly as much money, military, diplomatic, and media/social support to any of the many other oppressor regimes it backs. Speaking personally, I'm quite furious that my pocket gets picked by my government to support this bullshit.
Topic: Was the Creation of Modern Israel a Big Mistake?