Simple question: Have you ever seen an obese Muslim?
Because I can't remember a single example. There probably are, but they appear to be extremely rare.
On the contrary, any time you see Muslims, especially here in western countries, be it live or on some YouTube video or news segment, or whatever, what's the most typical demographic of them that you see? Young men (typically men who look between 20-30, rarely much older) who look very fit and, in many cases, even muscular.
I have absolutely no idea what goes on in Muslim communities and within Islamic culture, but from outwards appearances it seems that somehow it promotes or induces its members to take care of their own bodies, to eat well, to exercise, and to be fit. If there are obese Muslims, they seem to be a real rarity.
This all in itself, in isolation from everything else, would be quite admirable and commendable. It's always nice if a culture induces its people to be healthy and fit, and to take care of themselves, their own bodies, their own health. Especially to such an extent as seems to be the case here.
However, when not removed from its overall context, it makes me a bit worried. That's because the culture in question is a totalitarian expansionist culture that's drastically incompatible with the democratic egalitarian liberal constitutional values of the majority of the west, and the basic human rights associated with them. (Here "liberal" refers to classical/social liberalism that's the foundation of current free democratic egalitarian western societies, not the liberalism of the Democratic Party of the United States.)
A good portion of the Muslim communities living in the west are quite open about their support for Sharia Law (which is absolutely incompatible with constitutional human rights), and for eventually making it the law of the land in all the west. Many of them are completely unashamed and direct about it, and many are even boasting how western society is pretty much killing itself due to low fertility rates, while Muslims have high fertility rates and will eventually become the majority and supplant them. "Soft jihad" is a very commonly used term for this, and they aren't even trying to hide it.
If there ever becomes an internal conflict in a western country, some kind of civil war or anything like that, between Muslims and the native people, it may end up being a completely unilateral slaughter. Most Muslims are very fit young men, in very good shape and ready to fight for their ideology and their cause, while the vast majority of westerners are obese emasculated psychologically castrated couch potatoes in absolutely deplorable physical shape, who couldn't even take a soft punch without falling and crying about it. A physical confrontation between Muslims and native westerners would be an absolute slaughter, with the latter being completely unable to defend themselves, even if attacked by mere fists, with only very few exceptions.
There's only so much that the police and the army could do to restore order to such a conflict, especially if the Muslims become a majority of the population.
American conservatives would certainly respond to this with something like "good thing we have the 2nd Amendment!"
Maybe. But if you can get any amount of guns you want, so can they. The 2nd Amendment doesn't discriminate between Muslims and non-Muslims. And mind you, the vast majority of gun-toting American conservatives are also obese beer-chugging couch potatoes, whose only form of exercise is going to the fridge to get another beer, and who couldn't run a hundred meters even if their lives depended on it. The obesity epidemic is much worse in the United States than it is in Europe.
I think that the only way for the United States to avoid this fate is a restrictive immigration policy. Something most European countries are set on destroying for themselves.
Because I can't remember a single example. There probably are, but they appear to be extremely rare.
On the contrary, any time you see Muslims, especially here in western countries, be it live or on some YouTube video or news segment, or whatever, what's the most typical demographic of them that you see? Young men (typically men who look between 20-30, rarely much older) who look very fit and, in many cases, even muscular.
I have absolutely no idea what goes on in Muslim communities and within Islamic culture, but from outwards appearances it seems that somehow it promotes or induces its members to take care of their own bodies, to eat well, to exercise, and to be fit. If there are obese Muslims, they seem to be a real rarity.
This all in itself, in isolation from everything else, would be quite admirable and commendable. It's always nice if a culture induces its people to be healthy and fit, and to take care of themselves, their own bodies, their own health. Especially to such an extent as seems to be the case here.
However, when not removed from its overall context, it makes me a bit worried. That's because the culture in question is a totalitarian expansionist culture that's drastically incompatible with the democratic egalitarian liberal constitutional values of the majority of the west, and the basic human rights associated with them. (Here "liberal" refers to classical/social liberalism that's the foundation of current free democratic egalitarian western societies, not the liberalism of the Democratic Party of the United States.)
A good portion of the Muslim communities living in the west are quite open about their support for Sharia Law (which is absolutely incompatible with constitutional human rights), and for eventually making it the law of the land in all the west. Many of them are completely unashamed and direct about it, and many are even boasting how western society is pretty much killing itself due to low fertility rates, while Muslims have high fertility rates and will eventually become the majority and supplant them. "Soft jihad" is a very commonly used term for this, and they aren't even trying to hide it.
If there ever becomes an internal conflict in a western country, some kind of civil war or anything like that, between Muslims and the native people, it may end up being a completely unilateral slaughter. Most Muslims are very fit young men, in very good shape and ready to fight for their ideology and their cause, while the vast majority of westerners are obese emasculated psychologically castrated couch potatoes in absolutely deplorable physical shape, who couldn't even take a soft punch without falling and crying about it. A physical confrontation between Muslims and native westerners would be an absolute slaughter, with the latter being completely unable to defend themselves, even if attacked by mere fists, with only very few exceptions.
There's only so much that the police and the army could do to restore order to such a conflict, especially if the Muslims become a majority of the population.
American conservatives would certainly respond to this with something like "good thing we have the 2nd Amendment!"
Maybe. But if you can get any amount of guns you want, so can they. The 2nd Amendment doesn't discriminate between Muslims and non-Muslims. And mind you, the vast majority of gun-toting American conservatives are also obese beer-chugging couch potatoes, whose only form of exercise is going to the fridge to get another beer, and who couldn't run a hundred meters even if their lives depended on it. The obesity epidemic is much worse in the United States than it is in Europe.
I think that the only way for the United States to avoid this fate is a restrictive immigration policy. Something most European countries are set on destroying for themselves.
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