Question: When an imam publicly calls for the murder of homosexual people because it is against

[whatthehey]

25. Well there's a couple of differences, and some similarities

Muslim loons are certainly causing more terroristic mayhem globally than loons of other faiths right now. Only blissninnies scared of being called biased when the facts are themselves biased says otherwise. Why? Partly I think because Islam is more concentrated in the poorest most hopelessly ratfucked parts of the world so they have little hope and less opportunity. Partly because unlike the other big faiths the separation between state and church is an alien concept (and has been for Islam's whole history) so fundies wield greater power, and partly because looking at this from a big history POV, it's apparent the first fissures of what could be a Muslim Reformation are starting. If you look at Christian history between the 95 Theses and the Peace of Westphalia you'll see plenty that's familiar and unfortunately that it takes more than a century to settle down a bit. Even at the most optimistic reading we're about 30 odd years into that. Sorry to be a bummer.

The second difference is that while Christianity is a global religion too, there's really not a whole lot of factionalism that runs globally. The Christian gay killers in Uganda are not, in anything but name, connected tribally or culturally to very many Christians in Utah. Global Islam maintains that factionalism and the implicit need to support their distant brethren's causes far more powerfully. So we have more ISIS sympathizers in more places than Uganda style Christians.

But there are similarities. There are many Christian pastors calling for and applauding the murder of gays. They have been linked here repeatedly. They are not a fringe. A sizeable ratio of Americans want to impose Biblical law. It calls for the execution of gays. Muslims in the US are MORE accepting of gay marriage than US Protestants, and far far more accepting than evangelicals, LDS and JWs. You are referring to overseas polls. How many Ugandan Christians would agree? How many Muslims in western nations disagree? If 42% of US Muslims are ok with legal marriage, it's a bit unlikely half want to kill them? Different societies.