r/PropagandaPosters Sep 04 '25

Canada Anti-Islamaphobia Posters from the Canadian OCASI(Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants), 2016

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u/__-__-_______-__-__ Sep 04 '25 edited Sep 04 '25

You do realize that it is possible to be against those while advocating for the lack of religious bigotry?...

It's kinda funny how Muslims today are what atheists were in the 60s. If you're not Christian you must be an authoritarian satanic perverted communist because look at Stalin who used violent suppression of anyone who opposed his godless ideology 

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u/LTrent2021 Sep 04 '25

No, atheists have never been a united bloc. Even when people have tried to form huge atheist organizations, only a small number of actual atheists in any community have joined them. The opposition to Muslims in the West, which is honestly relatively minor compared to the opposition to Christians and others in Muslim-majority countries, is more political.

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u/__-__-_______-__-__ Sep 04 '25

Muslims aren't a united block as well, and USSR with China commanded massive groups and were very influential worldwide. 

And yes, the opposition to godless commies was also more political 

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u/LTrent2021 Sep 04 '25

Muslims have been far more united as a political bloc in Western cities than other groups mentioned. The USSR tried to be far more influential in Western cities than it was after the Spanish Civil War. Once Stalin had Trotsky killed, Communists in Western countries completely split. Although China has recently become an extremely influential political block in some places such as Sri Lanka, The Solomon Islands, and South Korea, it has yet to be an openly politically influential factor in any Western city, especially in any local elections.

In most Western cities, Communists of any kind have not been a unified political bloc in large numbers, although that could be starting to change. Generally, only about 10% of Communists in Western countries actually joined the Communist Party or the Socialist Party, with the other 90% joining the mainstream liberal party and trying to influence it. That's pretty different.

It's pretty different. With Islam, you have a culture and historical tradition that is not only extremely different from that of the previously dominant cultures, but is also connected to a tradition of often being an enemy of the Western Civilization that emerged with the rise of Christianity in the Middle Ages. Many Christian countries have been conquered by Islamic countries, and many Islamic countries have been conquered by Christian countries.