Muslim voters disillusioned with President Biden’s position on Israel are facing the prospect of a difficult choice in 2024.

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    8 months ago

    That’s the wrong order. Out of people born into Muslim or religious households, there is likely an even distribution of intelligent to stupid. Then the smart people self select out of religion leaving a disproportionate amount of stupid people in religions. So lack of intelligence doesn’t cause religion. Having intelligence can be a cause for people to leave religion.

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      8 months ago

      So you’re saying their being Muslim does have to do with their being stupid – or at least their continuing to be Muslim does.

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          8 months ago

          But see, if it was about religion generally, wouldn’t we expect to see a similar trend across all religious people?

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            8 months ago

            We do see that trend across all religions. Unless you wanted to count some of the “anti-religions” like Pastafarianism or The Church of Satan.

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                I was still referring to the stupid v religious correlation. There can be other factors causing the religious vote to sway.

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                  So then it sounds like we agree – the reason for seeing an increase in Muslims voting for Trump is more nuanced than just a general rise in stupidity across humanity.

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                    If that was your original contention, then yes. Almost everything is more nuanced than what is reported in the media. But nuance doesn’t drive clicks.