CDN_Nrrd:

"The current stream of Islamic thinking seems to be: If I hit you hard enough and long enough, you'll believe in my imaginary friend."

Umm, nope that is the historical "stream" of thinking. It is how it spread when people didn't know any better or converted so as to avoid the beatings they got everytime they had to pay Jiyza.

jerry2a
. Seriously though - how the hell did any of these people make it out of grade school?

Many of them didn't. Most of the woman didn't.

What's amazing is that the same people here who would defend a picture of Christ pelted with elephant dung, or a crucifix dipped in a jar of urine as free speech are the SAME ONES who cry "hate" and "discrimination" when somebody creates an image of Mohammed with a bomb in his turban.

Face it, Islam is mired in the middle ages, and unlike Christianity and Judiasm, has failed to reform into a tolerant, peaceful religion. Whereas mainstream Christians and Jews repudiate violence and intolerance, it's hard to argue that mainstream Islam does the same, with riots, terrorism and a mysogynistic, xenophobic culture that seems steeped in ritual death.

That is criticism, not hate.

If I was to state that on the streets of Mecca or Gaza (or scarier, in some parts of Europe), I'd be lucky to escape with my life.

If I stated that Catholicism was the evilist of religions, the very spawn of Satan while standing before the Pope himself in the Vatican, I might get a vocal rebuke, or a thoughtful reply.

I certainly would not fear for my life.

Moral equivalency is the argument of the close minded, especially in this case of apples and oranges.