Muslim Women Shockingly Not Grateful for Topless European Ladies Trying To Save Them

[Donald Ian Rankin]

219. You'll note that I was talking about "are", while you insist on talking about "were".

Whether Christianity a thousand years ago was, on average, better or worse than Islam today is very much open to debate (your historical analysis strikes me as almost certainly complete bunk, but I'm not confident in that dismissal), but it's also a silly question.

The question which is worth asking, because it has actual implications for how we interact with them, is to compare the influence *today* of Christianity and Islam. And the latter is unquestionably far, far more malign.

Shouting "Islamophobia" does not change that. Islamophobia can be defined more or less broadly, but if you define it broadly enough to include pointing out that the ethical teachings of Islam as interpreted by the majority of its practitioners contain a great deal of wickedness, then you've also defined it sufficiently broadly that it's *not* being an "Islamophobe" that is the moral failing.

Incidentally, your selection of a specific Muslim country (where women are treated very poorly compared to the average standard of Christian countries, specifically because of Islam) to a specific Christian country (where the status of women is also poor compared to the average of Christian countries, for reasons only peripherally connected to Christianity), rather than doing an average-to-average or distribution-to-distribution comparison, is a grade 1 example of intellectual dishonesty - it's a deliberate attempt to obfuscate and mislead to trick people into accepting the answer you want them to, rather than to arrive at an accurate answer.