Side by side comparison - Muslim extremist and Christian radicals
Without a doubt, our country has given significant power to Christian radicals like James Dobson, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and Ralph Reed, to name a few. Our president panders to these religous zealots. Yet we depend upon our president and government to protect us and engage muslim extremists in the war on terror.
And against whom are we fighting the war on terror? Well, the terrorists, of course, and the biggest religous group affiliated with terrorism these days are Islamic fundamentalists.
As an interesting exercise, let's characterize some of the features of Islamic fundamentalists and Christian fundamentalists to see just how similar the religious, radical right is to the terrorist they claim to be fighting.
Taliban/Islamic Fundamentalists | Christian Fundamentalists | |
View their holy books as the inerrant, literal word of God/Allah | Yes | Yes |
Believe the rule of God/Allah supercedes the law of man | Yes | Yes |
Deny Evolution or other Scientific Theories that contadict their religous holy books | Yes | Yes |
Sex is horrible, Abstinence is key outside of marriage | Yes | Yes |
Women should not work | Yes | Yes |
Have lots of babies - it's God's/Allah's will | Yes | Yes |
Life begins at conception - ban abortion because it's murder | Yes | Yes |
The world is against us - we are in a battle for our existance and future | Yes | Yes |
Education should be centered around our holy texts | Yes | Yes |
Our pastors/mullahs dictate how we vote and think | Yes | Yes |
I'm sure there are several more identical features of the Taliban and American Christian religous zealots. It boggles the mind that we feel our evangelical Christian president is in any way suited to fight a war on terror against people whom he has so much in common with.
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