In the wake of recent Islamist terror attacks, the Regressive Left has once again prioritised the defence of an ideology over the lives of its victims. Armchair experts were quick to pin the Orlando massacre on the perpetrator’s ‘mental health’, thereby propounding the widely misconstrued and exaggerated correlation between mental illness and violence. After all, ableist slurs are inconsequential to the all important task of defending religion. While Salon blamed “toxic masculinity”, others were busy trying to find anything to insinuate that Omar Mateen was gay, thus absolving religion of having divinely sanctioned homophobia for thousands of years. Ironically, religion’s neurosis with sexuality inspires exactly the sort of self-loathing that could drive someone to such extremes. Religious dogma is the numero unoreason why people struggle with their sexuality, often even after marriage.
Anyone who thinks religion has no bearing on the homophobia in it’s flock, should browse through the thousands of vile comments under the Al Jazeera Arabic’s Facebook post on the Orlando story.
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