On Boston suspects: Maher To Defender Of Islam: Equating Christianity And Islam "Liberal Bullshit"

[MellowDem]

120. It's a false equivalency, one born out of privilege here in the US...

of not having to deal with Islam. Liberals here must deal with Christianity in all its wonderful forms much more on a day to day basis in our politics, so the personal experience, the personal animosity that builds up towards that particular belief system trumps Islam, which seems almost irrelevant, and which even seems sympathetic in the context of the US, as a minority, and liberals can emphatize with other minorities generally.

Still, it is irrational and not based on logic, it is a false equivalency. I see this on DU all the time, and it has gotten downright obnoxious. Though criticism of all religions on here is still hard to do without so much offense, given the privilege religion still has even here, criticism of Islam especially brings out the alerters and naysayers, so much so that it's to the point that anyone who does criticize Islam MUST qualify it with "and Christians do it too", or be called out on that same overworn point.

Islam, as a whole, has more true believers than Christianity, or more consistent believers I guess I should say, and of course that makes it more dangerous on the whole, and means it is committing far more harm. Just read the Koran to see why, anyone who truly believes in that, any society, much less government that rules based on it will have serious issues. We already know this from the Bible or the Torah, terribly immoral books, and which are still pushed by fundamentalists in our own country every day to great harm.

All of these belief systems based on such stone-age morality and concepts such as "faith" are inherently opposed to progressivism and inherently dangerous, so of course the belief system that is still taken the most seriously by its followers, instead of having been relegated to centuries of "apologetics" and intellectually dishonest re-writing in order to survive as some sort of relevant organization in the modern world, will be the most dangerous and the most harmful.