I can only really speak for people here in the U.S. and in specific California, Washington, Hawaii and New Mexico where I actually have lived for any length of time:
However, if you are not a Christian here is how non-Christians tend to be treated here in the U.S. since the 1950s. (I'm sort of crunching everything I have seen in the last 50 years or so in sharing this).
So, as I grew up if you weren't a Christian people might look at you kind of funny but they weren't going to kill you for being different like you would be killed in other countries for being in another religion. In California we take very seriously the right to pursue happiness because if one person doesn't get to pursue their happiness most other people won't be able to either.
However, that being said if you weren't Christian people might not hire you because of ignorance and fear especially in the 1950s and early 1960s. However, if you bought or created a business and hired all your relatives to work there everything was fine even then. In fact, if you were really good and gave everyone really good prices everyone might beat a trail to the door to your business.
But, in primarily non-Christian countries I gather this isn't true which is the main reason I haven't studied Islam that much. I primarily chose not to because of the whole idea of the fact that if you didn't believe in Islam in an area you might be killed for not believing in Islam.
It's not that Christians haven't killed or even massacred whole cities of people like during the Crusades where every man, woman and child of any religion were killed mostly because of ignorance of the Crusaders and because they wanted to rape, loot and pillage and not have any witnesses left alive to talk about it.
However, since then people take Christian Brotherhood much more seriously which is why the "one for all and all for one" addage is actually lived out in emergencies whether they be weather, accidental or during war.
We have found in the U.S. if we all work together we all survive better. However, it is possible that there just isn't enough trust or non-religious education prevalent enough in most other countries for people to become educated in a useful way to understand that "United we stand and divided we fall".
In the U.S all of us understand this one thing. We are only strong when we stand together on one issue or another. Otherwise we are going every which way. But, when our country or state or region is threatened we all band together as one and get things done. That's just a part of Christian Brotherhood combined with a good form of government and how it actually works here.
So, I'm thinking that ignorance is what causes Shias to kill Sunnis and Sunnis to kill Shias. And what to me is really sad is that countries like Russia and Iran are actually creating this war for their own ends while wishing millions of people to die in whatever way possible.
So, first we have overpopulation caused by no use of birth control in most Muslim nations, and now we have genocide of Sunnis by Shias and now Shias by Sunnis. And the way this is presently going millions could be dead within 5 to 10 years or more the way this thing gets worse and worse every day. And the whole world is going to suffer through higher and higher oil prices while Russia and Iran smile from all the deaths.
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