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Consider also that in every Islamic country, there are surely untold millions of gay Muslims, forced into lives of repression, fear and denial that would probably make the Christian dark ages seem like a picnic.

It's discouraging to see that among the comment sections of a lot of secular humanist and atheist sites I frequent, there is a subset that subscribes to an irrational (in my estimation) fear of Muslims based on something like - their holy book commands the slaying of infidels, therefore, as long as Muslims exist, they are going to try to kill the rest of us. The slow growth of a moderate Muslim population has no quelling effect on their sometimes rabid-sounding rhetoric. (Some atheists are also prone to a similar response to moderate and liberal Christians - if you are in any way signing on to the faith, YOU ARE AS BAD AS THE WORST OF THEM.) On the whole, I think these sort are the minority among us nonbelievers, but I do sometimes find them hard to take.)

Okay, I'm getting rambly.

edited to add - based on Alex's earlier post, apparently, not "every Islamic nation" - and that's good to know.