Again...I can't make this any plainer than I already have. I am not comparing the validity of religion's. I was raised Catholic, I married a christian, I've hung out with muslims, lost my virginity to a Presbyterian (she was quite a good amabassador for her faith).
I don't care who or what a person worships. You can worship an oil can for all I care. All I ask is that you treat me and my family with courtesy and respect. The muslims I know have done that so I reciprocate. As a result, we all get along nicely. I don't thorw pig parts at them, they don't try to kill me. It works out really well for us...
There ARE Islamic governments today. Not just leaders who are Islamic, but ISLAMIC law.
There ARE proponents in the US, England, Europe, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, et al who WANT Islamic law in these nations.
MORE must be done to (A) stop this political movement in the West and (B) to ensure religious freedoms in predominantly muslim countries (that includes the open practice of non-muslim faiths in Saudi Arabia and also the ability of muslims to convert away from the faith without retribution).
When the muslims here denounce these actions and work to CHANGE them, then I will believe they are proactive in making a difference in this world in this area.
Where are the divestment rallies like there were against South Africa? A whole lot of people are silent.
I don't want such a political system to challenge what we have in the West. It is a supremacist ideology.
I don't look at society as it is today. I fear what this society will be in 25 years. It doesn't have to be. But it IS headed that way.