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What about the other questions, penalty for apostates, and sharia? If "your side" wins, what's your plan for imposing your reformist agenda on your brothers in muhammad without getting killed? Supporting an al-sisi or muhammad bin salman?
As to your hostility, let me put it this way: I guessed your religion long before you revealed anything about yourself. Muslim resentment towards the country they choose to live in really stands out. I don't know if it's a slave morality thing from the “slaves of allah” or just the sheer magnitude of that religion's failures.
Apostasy is fine, sad but fine. Belief can not and should not be compelled. I'm very very secularized as a person, to the point that compared to my brethren back home I'm practically irreligious (I don't pray 5 times a day, I weak silk and gold, I dance etc.).
Unbelievers have a place in society just as much as anyone else does. An Islamic society should be structured so that being a Muslim is easy, it should not be structured in a way that makes the lives of non-Muslims hard.
To quote Ambrose, "while in Rome, do as the Roman do". Hence while I am in the west I follow the laws of the west, even though they are not my preferred laws (btw, OG Sharia, is also not my preferred social system) and ask others of my faith to do so as well. Naturally I think some of your laws should be changed, but I wish to have them changed through your system for updating laws, namely democracy (much as I dislike it, it's how things are done in your country) rather than violence, hence my support for my people having more children in the west (conversely back home I'm the opposite, I'm like "stop having kids you idiots, condoms exist"; different social and political realities in diferent countries).
I would not say I'm resentful at all, I think I have the mentality of a conqueror far more than that of a slave, here to beat you at your own game (democracy) and then rule over what is left. Not personally ruling over your people, I'm too fickle and easily distracted for that, but our culture ruling over yours. I have a very very internal locus of control, I don't believe I am a ward of fate at all, bur that that we make our own luck. The "resentment" is just a tactic that works well on progressives and other assorted whites for getting power for those who are like me, and so I do it and support my people doing it. Much like taking an Aspirin for a headache, I do it because it works, not because I am beholden to some Cult of the Willow. If it stopped working, I would stop doing it. You people only have yourselves to blame for the current state of affairs.
MBS is probably the best thing to come out of Saudi Arabia for a long long time.
A conqueror can be a slave, eg slave-soldiers, mamluks and janissaries. An islamic specialty, though not exclusive to them.
How much control do you really have over your own life? Let’s say you decided to become an apostate. That would have consequences, perhaps even death, if you were ‘out’ and visiting pakistan. Although advocating for a ‘modern’ version of islam publically, expressing admiration for jews etc like you do here, may be enough, if you walked through the wrong neighorhood, pissed off the wrong people.
Therefore you are under constant threat of death, like a slave. The lowest english prole, as a free man, has more control over his own life than you have. It’s acceptable to you to be lower than the elites, but intolerable to be lower than the scum. Hence, your resentment towards them in particular.
No one likes to admit they are powerless slaves compelled by brute force, so you try to convince yourself that apostasy is a ‘sad’ choice you rejected out of your own will. As you say, personally you don’t even go for the whole package, you’re not convinced on a deep level, you stop exactly at the point where they apply the blade.
I am under constant threat of death of being run over by a bus every time I go out. It doesn't make me tremble in fear. Same with back home in Pakistan. Everyone there is under greater risk of dying in a suicide bomb attack, but people don't let that influence their lives due to how rare such attacks are as well as more pressing concerns.
No. I am an open an proud Freemason, and Freemasonry is also looked at very dimly in Islamic Countries (due to it providing an alternative social group, thus weakening the powers of the mullahs etc). People have been executed for mere membership of our fraternity in Muslim countries. And yet I talk openly about it. I am not a prole and arrange my affairs to minimize my contact with them, they have next to no power over people like me, a single extra peep out of them more than their allotment and the military snaps their spine like a toothpick (yes, this is the military where drinking whisky is basically a stereotype among the higher ranks). Some minor lone wolf attacks happen from time to time and might hurt us if they manage to get past our private security but where we have our house back home there are so many people like me that we have strength in numbers. The probability of me in particular or someone close to me getting hurt, even if I lived there full time, are minimal. Generally though the people that die in these attacks are other proles.
Back home we have connections to the "wrong people" you don't want to piss off. And the "wrong people" by and large tend to be more westernized than the unwashed masses. Yes there are parts of the country I would not visit, but that's nothing to do with my belief system, I wouldn't recommend visiting those areas even if you are merely wearing western clothing, that on its own is enough to mark you out.
But the thing is, I would never ever visit those areas in the first place, what ever would they have to offer me?
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