Muslim voters disillusioned with President Biden’s position on Israel are facing the prospect of a difficult choice in 2024.

  • @meco03211
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    111 months ago

    That’s the wrong order. Out of people born into Muslim or religious households, there is likely an even distribution of intelligent to stupid. Then the smart people self select out of religion leaving a disproportionate amount of stupid people in religions. So lack of intelligence doesn’t cause religion. Having intelligence can be a cause for people to leave religion.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 months ago

      So you’re saying their being Muslim does have to do with their being stupid – or at least their continuing to be Muslim does.

      • @meco03211
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        111 months ago

        That’s called correlation.

        • @[email protected]
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          111 months ago

          But see, if it was about religion generally, wouldn’t we expect to see a similar trend across all religious people?

          • @meco03211
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            We do see that trend across all religions. Unless you wanted to count some of the “anti-religions” like Pastafarianism or The Church of Satan.

              • @meco03211
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                111 months ago

                I was still referring to the stupid v religious correlation. There can be other factors causing the religious vote to sway.

                • @[email protected]
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                  211 months ago

                  So then it sounds like we agree – the reason for seeing an increase in Muslims voting for Trump is more nuanced than just a general rise in stupidity across humanity.

                  • @meco03211
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                    111 months ago

                    If that was your original contention, then yes. Almost everything is more nuanced than what is reported in the media. But nuance doesn’t drive clicks.