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I'm a British Catholic, but I talk to a lot of Arab/Muslim international students and they say stuff like "If someone spoke like this in my country, they would be arrested".

I'm talking about stuff like defending child marriage, defending the death penalty for apostates, having one's wife not speak in a video and instead having her give her input from writing on a whiteboard ect.

I understand there is a selection bias from the sort of people who would post on this subreddit - do you think even a minority of your countrymen would agree?

انا همسح ريدت مع اني عرفت ناس كويسه عليه بس فيه ناس كتير مش تمام وده مش السبب الرئيسي علشان امسحه السبب اني لسه ما بداتش ثانوي ازهري لحد دلوقتي وفاضل شهرين المفروض اسمع شرح واحل في شهرين علي 17 ماده ده غير نفسيتي مش احسن حاجه خالص مشاكل مع الاهل وانا قرفان من نفسي ده غير التنمر اللي بتعرضله ده غير نظرتي لتفسي اني كنت بفضل الله من اوائل دفعتي من أولي ابتدائي لحد تانيه ثانويه وجيت في تالته اللي هي المفروض مسك الختام مش عارف جرالي ايه لسه ما فتحتش كتاب لحد دلوقتي فهمسح التطبيق علشان بياكل الوقت حرفيا وياريت تدعيلي دعوه من قلبك يا قلب اخوك أن ربنا يصلح حالي واجيب فوق 90% مش عارف ازاي بس انا هعمل اللي عليا وربنا هيكرمني بإذن الله

سلام يا رجاله ❤️🫡

Many people repeat their hatred for Iran and Shiites because of their reputation in Syria and Lebanon. They also claim thar Iran was oppressing their own people. That may be true, I won't cover it. However the fanaticism of constantly citing these issues is clearly irrational. There are millions of Iranians and Shiites, and those involved in violence against Sunnis are only a handful. So we need to hate all Shiites and Iranians simply because of the actions of those few?

Iran just simply provide the weapons and support. Weapon never did wrong, only the one behind it who used it for bad thing. Then how about other Syrians who was supporter of Assad. Many of them were also Sunni. By same standard, can we blame Syrian Sunni for supporting Assad and involved in the tragedy?

Even if the violence originated from the Iranian government, the Iranian government is still comprised of many individuals and factions who may hold differing views. It would be unjust to blame them all, let alone to want the Iranian regime destroyed.

Try to think rationally, we should only hate those who hate us. Anything else is just bigotry.

specifically Alexandria but also Cairo and plz be very detailed and honest 😮‍💨