This applies to almost everything we fight here:
Fundamentalist Islam is entirely incompatible with American values. Nothing could be clearer. But so is fundamentalist Christianity, or any fundamentalism, no matter the faith. This is the lesson we should’ve learned on 9/11 but somehow, we continue to apologize for homegrown extremism.
Yes.
For a little context, that quote comes from ACG at the Submitted to a Candid World blog. He mentioned Newt Gingrich’s outrage over a (quickly reversed) court decision which exonerated a Muslim man for marital rape, citing Shari’a law. It was a mistake, obviously, but that will never stop an opportunistic, angry wingnut like Newtie from pouncing and scaring old, ignorant white people into thinking that the Mooselems are coming for them, and they’re bringin’ thar Shar-EYE-uh laws wit ‘em! But then, smartly, the writer compared that event to the matron of the Religious Right, Phyllis Schlafly, and her consistent, longstanding belief that marital rape simply does not exist.
I say it all the time. The extremist Muslim worldview is not all that different from the fundamentalist Christian worldview. The only reason the Christians don’t bomb things (yet) is that they’re moderated by modern society, which is largely absent in the places in the Islamic world where extremism flourishes. Shari’a already exists in the United States. The fundamentalist Christians just call it something different, like “Judeo-Christian valyews.”
What fundamentalist Christians call “Judeo-Christian values” is more accurately called Islamic-Christian values.
But it is a disgrace that any court ruling, anywhere in the civilized world, should come anywhere close to ruling in favour of a rapist, ‘out of respect for faith’.
These people only add the “Judeo” because it gives them the illusion of not being bigots.
Yes “Christians” do bomb things in America already, specifically black churches during the civil rights marches, abortion clinics, gay bars. All of the lynchings that went on for years unchallenged by all the authorities including the “church” now wouldn’t that be classified as a “bombing?”
And hiding and defending priests who rape children is also a form of bombing (first physical, then psychological).