#Religious Extremism

[probablyasocialecologist]

“Under His wings,” one lobbyist wrote in an email. “The Devil never sleeps,” another person sent in an email chain about the distinction between gender and sex. “I pray for the 2nd coming more and more.”

These missives are part of a trove of leaked emails between South Dakota GOP Rep. Fred Deutsch, anti-trans lobbyists, and other state lawmakers about anti-trans policies that are filled with language so deeply religious that, at times, the communications read like scripts from The Handmaid’s Tale. It’s the language, one expert told VICE News, of Christian nationalists who believe they’re engaging in a holy war.

The emails, which are available online for journalists and others to read and were first reported on by Mother Jones, include revelations about some of the ways that anti-trans lobbyists—and elected Republicans like Deutsch and Idaho Rep. Julianne Young—collaborate and strategize to write and endorse policies that directly target trans people on a national scale.

The repeated notes about “blessings” and “prayers,” as well as sign-offs like “God bless you” and “Under His wings,” proliferate throughout the emails, which frequently reference explicit religious motivations for targeting trans people.

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“It is the language of Christian nationalism,” Thomas Lecaque, an associate professor of history at Grand View University focusing on apocalyptic religion and political violence. “It is the language of people who very much believe they are doing God’s will, and it is the language of people who very much believe that they are engaged in a holy war.”

#lgbt #transgender #transphobia #christian nationalism #religious extremism

[lethelcain]

glory to god

#religious art #religious horror #religious trauma #saint maud #religious imagery #religious extremism

[disgruntledexplainer]

They said it! They said the thing I was trying to articulate in my previous post!

#religion #catholicism #catholic #religious extremism #disorganized religion #organized religion #christianity #right wing extremism #culture war

[radykalny-feminizm]

"The fact that muslim terrorist groups exist is not Islams' fault! There are peaceful muslim people you know!"

Would you also say that we can't blame Christianity for the forms of oppression such as:

Crusades

Colonisation/Mission trips

Witch trials

Heresy trials

Because not all Christians participated in these and not all of them supported it?

Or do you only excuse religions that it's currently trendy to support?

#radfem #radical feminism #radfem safe #radblr #radfems do interact #feminism #radfems do touch #religion #anti religion #anti islam #anti hamas #anti hijab #anti christianity #religious extremism #terrorism #hamas #is #isis #islam #muslim #mine

[timetravellingkitty]

It is truly amazing to see Indian Islamaphobes using the persecution of Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh to fuel their Hindutva propaganda. I'm sorry but if you really cared you'd be bringing them up elsewhere, not just when you wanna use them as a scapegoat to call for the genocide of Indian Muslims, to justify why India MUST be a pure Hindu nation. You'll never see them bring up Sri Lanka, where the Rajapaksa family is trying to maintain a Sinhala-Buddhist hegemony and persecuting a minority that is mostly Hindu, because it doesn't fit their Islamaphobic agenda

It's also really baffling when they argue that "Oh Muslims have so many countries why can't we have ONE Hindu nation why must WE be secular" do you realise that Muslim theocracies are not good either. Do you not see the harm inflicted onto people there in the name of Islam. Not a single religion out there deserves their own state. Islam isn't exempt from this

#systems of oppression everywhere are interconnected regardless of religion #pls help me tag this #islamaphobia #hindutva #religious extremism #india #desiblr #reva speaks

[tomorrowusa]

What's gone underreported since the October 7th terrorist attack which started the Israel-Hamas war is that extremist Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank have increasingly been attacking Palestinian residents there.

The US is now taking action against violent settlers.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said in a Sunday interview he was “pleased” to see President Biden announce he would take measures to more forcefully combat settler violence in the West Bank, specifically noting his suggestion for a restriction on travel visas. “I was pleased to hear the president say what he said, and I fully support the president’s plan to restrict visas from people who have a record of violence against innocent people,” Van Hollen said in an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation.” “I think that’s an important first step,” he added. Van Hollen’s remarks come as many Democrats have increased calls for the White House to focus more on the loss of life among innocent Palestinians as the war continues in the region.

This settler violence is not new. But settlers are taking advantage of the distraction in Gaza to ramp up their savagery.

“Extreme settler violence against Palestinians has been an issue for a very long time. We’ve seen a huge spike in extremist settler violence since the Gaza war started, as people have been focused on the war there,” Van Hollen said.

As of Thursday, over 120 West Bank Palestinians have been killed in settler-instigated violence since October 7th.

The West Bank Israeli settlers have been the biggest impediment to Israel-Palestine peace for decades. They are mostly religious fanatics and ethno-nationalists who believe Israel should have the same boundaries it had 3,000 years ago. Though there is also a segment of opportunistic settlers who are there because far-right Israeli governments had promised them cheap housing and land in the occupied territories.

The far right in Israel as exemplified by Bibi Netanyahu and the Hamas Islamic extremists had been strange allies – until October 7th. Both oppose a two-state solution and implicitly favor their own versions of the "from the river to the sea" implied genocide.

I hope the decades-late sanctions against extremist Israeli settlers by the US will send a clear signal that encroachments on Palestinian land will not be tolerated.

As for those who claim that Israel has a Biblical right to the West Bank and Gaza: Get a life! There's nothing like religious fanaticism to inflame a conflict. Hamas is not the only group of fanatics motivated by religious radicalism in the region.

The US has recognized the right of Israel to exist since its inception. I support that. But using the Bible as a blueprint for 21st century geopolitics is no more legit than using it as a science textbook.

#israel #gaza #hamas #palestine #the west bank #west bank settlers #october 7th #binyamin netanyahu #religious extremism #us sanctions on violent west bank settlers #biden administration #chris van hollen #ישראל #בנימין נתניהו #מתנחלי הגדה המערבית #דתיים קיצוניים #פלשתינה #إسرائيل #مستوطني الضفة الغربية #فلسطين #المتطرفون الدينيون #حماس

[kittyregime]

I think I scared off all the Hamas supporters off my blog but just in case:

This is a FEMINIST blog. I don't mind if you are a libfem, radfem, or even trans femme*. Pro-Hamas "feminists" will not be toleratered. Anyone trying to derail my posts or posts I reblog in order to downplay their crimes will be blocked.

I don't care to interact with fans of a misogynistic, antisemitic, and genocidal organization who treats their citizens' as cannon fodder and is nothing but another religious extremist blight on MENA.

If you genuinely cared about Palestinians in Gaza and if you cared about Jews, you would want this organization blown off the map.

#*i love puns #radblr #radblr critical #antisemitism #misogyny #extremism #religious extremism #hamas #anti hamas

[unitedfrontvarietyhour]

Hasan Piker on why the Israeli/Palestinian "conflict" isn't about religion.

#united front #palestine #free palestine #imperialism #israel #apartheid #hasan piker #hasanabi #religion #religious extremism

[millionmovieproject]

Standing up for Palestine has absolutely nothing to do with antisemitism, and everything to do with anti-Zionism.

#palestine #rights for palestine #israel #apartheid #genocide #ethnic cleansing #antisemitism #anti-zionism #zionism #us sponsored terrorism #religious extremism #palestinian genocide

[neurotypicalabusesurvivor]

If your religion cannot survive without indoctrinating children then your religion should die off.

It is peaceful and consentaul conversion without genocidal intentions or extinction. Those are the only options religions have

#relgion #christian supremacy #christofascists #christian faith #jesus christ #christianity #spiritual abuse #religious extremism #religous trauma #child abuse #childern #childhood #children #childhood trauma #tw abuse

[troythecatfish]

#threads #threads app #history #history posting #history tumblr #history side of tumblr #the Pilgrims #american history #usa history #religious fanaticism #christian extremism #religious extremism #social justice #plymouth #political #political posting #politics #cult #death cult

[ladyzirkonia]

Mandalorian armor culture

I've been thinking about it a bit, specifically as far as Din Djarin's cult is concerned. And yes I will continue to call it a cult for various reasons. Mainly to say that this is an extreme religious form of a group, whether they force their members to do anything or not. I will never understand how people can glorify this kind of religious extremism. On the subject of Mandalorian Armor, I found this on Reddit:

Well, I understand that armor plays a role in the life of almost every Mandalorian, but some groups live it out in a very extreme way, similar to what we know today from orthodox Judaism, for example.

A few more questions I asked myself:

Are there any occasions where you take your helmet off?

What about family? Do you show your face within a family group?

Especially as far as the grouping of Din Djarin is concerned:

No, not in front of anyone, not even in front of family. I doubt very much that there are any family groups there at all. So I'm sorry my friends, this whole idea once you're married you can take your helmet off isn't the case here, otherwise Din could take his helmet off in front of Grogu, after all he now sees him as his son. So no, no kisses, no sex.. and there are only offspring through the foundlings.

So in my opinion this sect is not following the path of the old Mandalor, but rather ONE extreme form of it. Whether that's good or healthy, you can form your own opinion about that, such a form of extremism definitely gives me quite a headache.

I still very much hope that Bo-Katan will take the lead over this faction and towards a more appropriate handling of their culture.

This is the way!

#mandalorian culture #mandalorian armor #star wars #the mandalorian #din djarin #bo katan kryze #mandalorian cult #religious extremism #lore #the mandalorian season 3

[chaiaurchaandni]

is religious extremism only bad if brown muslims do it?

zios/israelis regularly use their religion and religious teachings to justify their genocide of palestinians, since the very beginning of the zionist project, even before nakba 1948. they quote their holy book and evoke stories from their faith while murdering palestinian children. israeli rabbis tell israeli terrorists that they are allowed to rape palestinian women and children. they spray paint the star of david on the walls of destroyed palestinian homes. they burn the star of david into the skin of innocent palestinians.

they commit terrorism in the name of their god. and yet, zios are never called religious extremists. is this term only reserved for brown muslims and never for european pigs?

#free palestine #palestine #gaza #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #glory to the martyrs #long live palestine #long live the resistance #death to israel #religious extremism #terrorism

[radykalny-feminizm]

One may ask why Hamas won't use their power and money to actually help Palestinian women and children with no food or anything instead of buying rockets and other military equipment. It's almost like they don't really care about Palestinian people and just want to kill Israeli people. But shh, we aren't supposed to ask questions, we just need to post #freepalestine and go about our days.

#radfem #radical feminism #radfem safe #radblr #radfems do interact #radfems do touch #hamas #Palestine #israel #war in israel #free palestine #terrorism #islam #muslim #muslim extremism #religious extremism #mine

[nando161mando]

"Guess how many local news outlets have reported on the anti-LGBTQ+ extremist attack outside of the Pasadena Courthouse?

Zero. Fucking zero. The extremists are on video performing the crime, admitting to the crime, and nothing happens.

The media and cops work together to cover up fascist violence."

#usa #america #police state #police #pasadena #right wing extremism #anti trans extremism #far right extremism #religious extremism #extremist #united states #unitedstateofamerica #unitedsnakes #native american #amerikkka #amerika #class war #classwar #biden administration #joe biden #biden crime family #hunter biden #biden will destroy america #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #neoliberal capitalism

[abla-soso]

Zionism is both a secular movement and an extremist religious movement.

This entire war has been explicitly framed by Israel as Jewish religious terrorism.

Every cultural marker of Judaism has been used in direct service of genocide.

And it's not "antisemitic" to point this out.

Zionists hijacked Judaism the same way ISIS tried to hijack Islam.

The difference is: At its height, ISIS was utterly reviled by most Muslims and Islamic institutions. Muslims went above and beyond to condemn ISIS as an un-Islamic terrorist organisation. Muslims armies fought ISIS and ended them.

In comparison, the Jewish anti-Zionist movement - while it is big and growing - is still wildly unpopular in the majority of Jewish institutions and circles.

Israel has almost successfully managed to hijack Judaism. That's horrifying!! Especially to any Jew who simply wants to practise his or her religion in peace without being guilt-tripped or terrorized into supporting a genocidal ethno-state that preaches a bastardized version of their religion.

#war on gaza #religious extremism #isis #anti zionisim #death to israel