[x5n1]

> This is a serious security threat for many Muslims abroad.

It's not a threat. It's a wake up call. The less you can bury all that goes on under the rug the less easier it is to justify repressive, hypocritical cultures like the cultures around Islam.

[dang]

Religious flamewars are not welcome on Hacker News. We've warned you repeatedly about taking HN threads in this and similar directions. Since you've ignored our requests and don't seem to want to use this site as intended, we've banned your account.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12008477 and marked it off-topic.

[basseq]

You're getting downvoted, but there's a grain of truth here. If our perspective is, "It's ok that people were on this site, but bad that it leaked because consequences," shouldn't we be willing to focus on how to remove those consequences and the system that puts them in place?

[afarrell]

People are willing to do that, but without a significant number of arabic-speaking westerners, how do you do thatin a way that is actually effective?

[hackuser]

This discussion painting an entire religion, condemning and insulting a billion individuals, as criminal and violent is ignorant and disgusting, and should not be on Hacker News (or anywhere else in civilized society).

I can only imagine what Muslim readers of HN feel when reading it, seeing that our community - and YCombinator - appear to condone it.

The problem isn't Muslims, Christians or any other religion; it's hateful, ignorant attitudes.

[dang]

> seeing that our community - and YCombinator - appear to condone it

Condone it? That could not be further from the truth.

How many more comments do you think I should post about this?

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=...

[Grue3]

Religion is the ideology that breeds and justifies those attitudes. We need to stop treating religion differently than any other beliefs people hold.

[x5n1]

We need to talk about Islam's human rights problems all the time everywhere because that's the only way these problems will ever see the light of day. In Muslim countries these problems are always buried and there is a conspiracy to keep them buried so that no social progress can be made. That's immensely disrespectful to the victims of these problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zina#Human_rights_controversy