The news agencies has themselves to blame to some degree. Hyper sensationalizing everything for decades has established more and more desensitization baselines to the point we now have fascists taking control all over the world in no small part thanks to them.

Edit for clarification: Proper, ethical journalism does indeed matter. But the vast majority of “news” is not that.

It was a garbage search engine, but a memorable one from the early web nonetheless.

They look like something the bee sells on Etsy.

When you’re a global criminal organization, you ensure immunity by blackmailing and/or extorting every single person in a position of power as much as possible. There’s a reason these monsters have gotten away with it–and continue to get away with it–for so damn long

That’s ignoring their point, though. They are simply pointing out that the father in this article is not following the Quran, they’re following some other twisted ideology that uses the Quran as an excuse, despite the source material explicitly telling them not to do this type of behavior.

As a side note, I’m not religious, and I do believe that organized religion has been the cause of horrible atrocities. I just think your response isn’t really addressing what the other person was debating, but maybe I’m wrong.

They’ve been actively fighting libraries over the years, with renewed fervor in the last decade. As numerous others have pointed out before–including the article I linked–if libraries hadn’t already been such a long-standing concept for centuries, they would 100% not be allowed to come into existence nowadays. Hyper greed has poisoned every facet of modern society.