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With respect to the odd levels of tolerance that liberals and institutions show toward various degrees of, shall we say, "illiberal and unwoke" behavior from Muslims: does anyone actually believe that a "white" Western convert to Islam would be shown even a portion of this tolerance extended "brown" Muslims, should he do anything that would get a Christian "trad" in trouble with the likes of CFS? Because I once again came across someone glibly making that claim, and I still find it utterly implausible. (I'm reminded of Fred Thompson's first episode on Law & Order.)

I assume you mean Child Protective Services?

I don’t get the impression that Muslims are getting extra slack when raising children, but it’s really hard to tell. Search results are fixated on England. What exactly do you have in mind?

I know one white guy who converted to Islam to marry his former grad student. No idea if they have kids.

It's called different things in different states. Here it's CYFD (Children Youth and Families Department).

It depends on who the trad families are interacting with. I had thought there were scandals about Muslim communes at a similar rate by population to the extremist Christian ones, but haven't looked at the numbers.

I’m not even sure I can find the extremist Christian scandals. There was YFZ ranch back in 2008/2014, but that was a weird branch Mormon cult compound. Also, it was raided by Texas; I can’t imagine they’d be any more lenient towards a comparable Islamic cult.

The YFZ raid was a dud on the claim of physical abuse of children, but most of the elders did get convicted for statutory- and polygamous muslims marrying teenagers would almost certainly get in just as much trouble. Mohammedans get a weird double standard in the progressive press but it's unclear that they actually get treated better by CPS.

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