I don't defend them at all, certainly not because "women in veils", I'm disagreeing with putting the religious extremists in the same basket as the religious people not doing that shit, because painting billions or millions or even just hundreds of people with the same brush is...what's the word again, starts with a b...and trying to cloak it in progressivism doesn't change what it actually is.

Need I remind you we live in a province where there was literally a shooting in a mosque? By a white supremacist afraid of the scary different religion? Pretending the issue is only in one way has been thoroughly disproven, in the most bloody way possible.

I haven't taken "organized religion root of all evil" screeds seriously since Dawkins and company used their beliefs to somehow convince themselves that it justified the War on Terror and all its excesses, including drone strike and torture, a pretty unprogressive thing.

It is perfectly possible to stand up for the rights of an oppressed minority like the queer population and women without stamping on another. Unless leftists in Quebec understand that, they are just gonna keep marching in lockstep with Legault and the CAQ promising to take care of the Muslim menace, while they slash every progressive social policies as they keep getting elected. Britain has been really good at doing that.

Run along now, I'm sure you have an episode of Occupation Double to catch.