Hard to answer. I see similarities. Take for instance abortion protesters. We all agree they have a right to protest. Abortion is wrong, and if it were right, people would still have the right to protest. Some go beyond and kill the abortion doctors. In a legal sense, they are guilty of murder and the state has no choice but to prosecute.
As citizens, we have an obligation to obey laws. But I am curious as to what is going to happen in the jury room when the defense raises a “defense of life” defense. Muslims would probably see little wrong with shooting an abortion doctor.
Christians are not in favor of murder, but down there at the radical level, we have already seen a few make the jump. Right now, I think you can count these people on the fingers of one hand. Like Eric Rudolf, or that guy in Kansas. What happens if more become willing to cross that line between “Caesar’s laws” and what they view as God’s laws?
And what happens if those people ever link up with the fundamentalist type Muslims? Both groups spring from Judaism. Both believe in the 10 Commandments. Both view society as evil. Both believe in Heaven. There’s a lot of common ground. If one Christian in ten thousand make that
jump, you’re looking at what, like 25,000 people?
parsy, who can see this becoming a possibility down the road
Here's the fundamental difference [pun intended]: In 2009, you would have to look a long time to find a Christian whacked out enough to be in favor of killing somebody for insulting the name of Jesus. In several Muslim countries (Saudi Arabia and Pakistan come to mind), it is LAW that defaming Islam has the offender liable to the death penalty. Being an apostate is also a death penalty offense in Islam.
So let's stop with the moral equivalence games, okay?