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same question I was about to ask but sorta chickened out lol. Is islamically inspired homophobia wosre than other types of homophobia?
ETA - question still troubling me - I mean the chap who got called a fag, could have been called a fag by an ignorant of another stripe - the result is the same - the cause different.
Practically it's all the same but an argument can be advanced that maybe it's not as "malicious" as other non faith based forms of homophobia. The religious homophobe (sp?) has been, from birth, indoctrinated into a belief system where to not follow or to veer from the dictates of a very powerful being would mean eternal punishment of the worst kind. To make the supreme dictator happy and to "save" him/herself, they are forced into a situation (blackmailed, if you will) where they are commanded to hate certain groups of people (some more than others). Now of course the religious person has the agency to free his mind from the shackles but how many people, realistically, do that? Not many. Now contrast that with someone who hates gay people for the sake of it, without such grand threat/blackmail as the religious people. Not a strong argument, but still valid, I think.
Ps: I'm aware that I've made some assumptions in my example above, so please feel free to not be pedantic.