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A cult is a system of worship or veneration organized around a central person, character, symbol, or object. There’s nothing inherently good or bad about it.

If someone disagrees with Islam and does not adopt that ideology’s tenets, then that person is by definition not a Muslim. You’re basically trying to have your cake and eat it too, saying that people who ascribe to an ideology don’t actually believe in the ideology they adopted. Unfortunately that’s not how it works in the real world. If they don’t ascribe to the ideology, then they don’t ascribe to the ideology, and that’s fine, but that doesn’t change the nature of the ideology itself. People don’t choose hateful and violent ideologies because they disagree with the ideology’s tenets. If they do disagree, they obviously don’t rush out and adopt the ideology they disagree with. You can’t have it both ways.

Why would you say that?

People make the voluntary choice to adopt ideologies that promote racism, sexism, etc.

If they don’t agree with the ideology’s hateful and violent tenets, they don’t have to adopt the ideology, but it’s disingenuous to suggest that people who do voluntarily choose adopt those ideologies don’t actually believe in them. Nobody chooses to adopt an ideology they disagree with.

You’re not wrong that this post is fake, but it’s important to remember that there’s nothing phobic about criticizing someone’s voluntarily-chosen ideology, especially when that ideology promotes violence, hatred, misogyny, homophobia, racism, sexism, etc. That’s not phobia or bigotry or hatred, it’s just normal criticism

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I honestly don’t know what kind of computer it was. It was something my dad brought home from work when they were going to throw it out, so it was old even when I had it in the early 90s. It ran DOS, had a 5 1/4 inch floppy drive, and a lovely orange monochrome monitor. I used it to write my little stories and play crappy console games. Good times.

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