Muslims are no Different, or why Bill Maher’s blood libel is Bigotry

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90. No, you are

I'm going to try putting this simply. The reason we bring up the stuff from hundreds of years ago is to point out that, given free reign, Christianity would absolutely be every bit as bad as fundie Islam is. We know that because it has been. Pretending that Islam is uniquely awful is just dishonest and, in a part of the world with a heavy sense of history, laughable.

Pointing out the abuses of radical Muslims doesn't work if you pretend that Christianity's shit doesn't stink. If you want to point out abuses, fine, let's do that. But doing it while pretending that Christianity would not be just as bad and maybe worse simply won't fly.

Moreover, what do you suggest we do? The west has tried imposing modernity by force for the last decade. I don't need to tell you how that turned out. Trying to convince over a billion people to give up their faith isn't going to work. So the only thing that works is advancing, supporting and promoting the moderate figures within Islam and you can't do that when you've already alienated them by treating their faith as uniquely horrible.