"There are fanatic Christians today... the people who have bombed abortion clinics and shot doctors who perform abortions, for instance, are religious terrorists are they not? What about Fred Phelps?...Religious extremism of any stripe is a threat to a free society. Both the Taliban and the Talibornagain ought to be rejected."
There is really no excuse for drawing that kind of false moral equivalence.
The unbalanced individuals who have violated the tenets of Christianity by murdering people associated with abortuaries are deplored by the vast majority of Christians. They are not praised, nor encouraged, nor protected by Christians.
Further, rather few of these individuals have emerged, giving the lie to the proposition that Christianity fosters them.
In contrast, Islam has engaged in terrorism and depredations for the past 1400 years, at times overrunning significant portions of Europe. This latest escalation is in its 4th decade. The number of victims is huge and growing. And Muslims not only praise, encourage, and protect terrorists, they fund them.
You look at the faithful practice of an evil religion on the one hand, and aberrent behavior that violates the tenet of a good religion on the other, and somehow arrive at the conlusion that the two religions are morally equivalent.
Nothing that Christian "fundamentalists" believe or advocate is half so dangerous to a free society as the false moral equivalence.
You ought to check with Benjamin Rush, if you want to talk about equivalence.
"Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments, that I had rather see the opinions of Confucius or Mohammed inculcated upon our youth than see them grow up wholly devoid of a system of religious principles. But the religion I mean to recommend in this place is the religion of JESUS CHRIST." 1786
Dr. Benjamin Rush, Signer of the Declaration, and delegate at the Constitutional Convention.
Advocating that a government have the power to say which religions are allowed and which are not is very dangerous and un-American political territory.
Alles klar, Herr Kommissar?