This is a good post overall, although I will address some of the individual points.
Firstly in a more globalized world where everyone is connected it does become more relevant. Erdogen is just an example of a hypocracy we see not uncommonly among Muslims.
He is speaking the apparent voice of liberalism in the west and calling for the rights of Muslims to wear their religious attire anywhere, yet has the total opposite view in dealing with Islamic countries and wouldn't raise for a second the idea of similar rights to non-muslims. So I am calling out this two faced hypocrisy not just from him but any Western Muslim.
Secondly, often there is a connection between Western Muslims where they travel to and have family in Islamic countries.
The comment by a recent killing of a Muslim woman in Pakistan raising the issue of women rights there is an example of how we cannot totally separate them as far as Muslim communities go.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/530724-mukadam-murder-misogyny-feminism/
Their not really comparable. The Ten commandments of Christianity and Dharma in Buddhism are more like ethical guides for the individual. It is does not get involved with state legislature in the same way Sharia attempts to.
Ok that's good but how common are these views in the wider Western Muslim community? Would your family members be ok with openly speaking or writing about their atheism or converting to other religions without concern about threats from other muslims? That is one of the pillars of secular democracy.
Agreed.
I'm not interested in getting into this as it is a separate discussion and tangential to the thread but what I said is fundamentally accurate.
These nations all have overwhelming technological and military superiority such that no kind of real war is considered at this point, certainly no attack by any Muslim nation would even be considered, they're not suicidal.
The days of Islamic counties being an existential threat have been over since the collapse of the Ottoman empire and they won't return.
Its not really your fault, I think you're just totally desensitized and basically kept in the dark to how overwhelmingly powerful the US has been since the end of the second world war when Europe destroyed itself and the US inherited the mantle, Russia also and NATO also which is a US proxy.
China has also got a massively expanded military and India as well in recent years which will only get more powerful as their economies continue to grow.
But the overwhelming power has been and continues to be the US military.
"As distinct from other peoples, most Americans do not recognize—or do not want to recognize—that the United States dominates the world through its military power. Due to government secrecy, our citizens are often ignorant of the fact that our garrisons encircle the planet."
Chalmers Johnson,former CIA consultant.
https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/explained-the-us-military-s-global-footprint-45029
The US also has military bases in several middle eastern countries, UAE, Lebanon, Oman, Yemen, Kuwait and previously even Sauia Arabia which they diplomatically left due to 'unbelievers' literally having military installations in the holiest Muslim country which incidently, is also a US proxy state now.
I will just leave a quote from a Noam Chomsky article:
"Ever since the end of the Cold War, the overwhelming power of the US military has been the central fact of international politics.” This is particularly crucial in three regions: East Asia, where “the US Navy has become used to treating the Pacific as an ‘American lake'”; Europe, where NATO — meaning the United States, which “accounts for a staggering three-quarters of NATO’s military spending” — “guarantees the territorial integrity of its member states”; and the Middle East, where giant US naval and air bases “exist to reassure friends and to intimidate rivals.”
"The problem of world order today, Rachman continues, is that “these security orders are now under challenge in all three regions” because of Russian intervention in Ukraine and Syria, and because of China turning its nearby seas from an American lake to “clearly contested water.” The fundamental question of international relations, then, is whether the United States should “accept that other major powers should have some kind of zone of influence in their own neighborhoods.”
https://truthout.org/articles/us-power-under-challenge-masters-of-mankind/