Alex Gabriel has an immense detailed analysis of Pat Condell’s claims in a recent video about the attitudes of “Muslims” to homosexuality. It’s actually more than that, more of a meta-analysis of surveys on the subject.
He summarizes at the end:
… Read the restFor those who’ve skipped to the bottom, as a tl;dr summary, the landscape they suggest can I think be distilled as follows:
- Muslim attitudes are often highly varied, in some cases powerfully polarised, including on questions of sexuality.
- Determinants of this variation, in addition to other less obvious ones, include nationality, ethnicity and age.
- All of these, age in particular, challenge the view conservative and fundamentalist approaches to Islam are ‘imports’ through recent immigration; their followers are often young
(This is a syndicated post. Read the original at FreeThoughtBlogs.)