I disagree. If for example I choose not to hire someone that is racist should that be as bad as not hiring someone that is black?
That would depend, If you refused to hire the racist without proof of his breaking any laws, then yes it is as bad. More socially acceptable maybe, but thats not the same thing.
Very few religions call for the death penalty for homosexuality. Very few religions specifically state in their holy books that women should be given lesser treatment in some areas.
Christianity does, Leviticus it states " "
And if a man lie with mankind, as with womankind, both of them have committed abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them." now we do not take that to its literal meaning in christianity do we, why should we expect Muslims to within their religion.
Corinthians states "But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God. " which is pretty pervasive in meaning. there are many more. Again its about interpretation. With a more modern view of each religion this is apparent.
http://www.reformislam.org/
Then call me bigoted if you wish (hell, call me racist if you prefer) but I do think that Islam has some differences in the way it is set up and the way it is generally enacted compared to other religions. I think the prime difference is the difference between "divinely inspired" and "actual word of God". As the Koran is said to be the actual word of God as dictated to Mohammed there is much less room for interpretation than the bible for example.
I dont think you are a Racist or bigoted. You have an opinion which is reasoned, unlike Angilion who does not want to defend his position, thus can be said to be bigoted.
The Bible is considered the word of god, it is considered by christians as the Divine Revelation, most of the 66 books state on over 4000 occasions " "Thus says the Lord," or "The word of the Lord came unto me," or word to that effect. So it can be considered the actual word of god as passed to the men who wrote it. Not unlike Mohammed or the sixty or so Sahaba who wrote the Quran.
Not really sure how this is at all equivilant considering how the Blackwater six were sent to trail by the West, in the West and there is little dispute about what they did, however they got off on a technicality. (Other than the one that pleaded guilty...). Not to mention numerous other cases where soldiers have been court martialed for acting outside the constaints of their orders.
Where were the Christian churches when the serbians were ethnic cleansing their Muslim population?, they denounced it much the same as the moderate Islamic groups now. Why are we always holding Muslims to a different set of rules than other like groups.
Compare and contrast this to the fuss made in the UN about Israel and the silence about the much greater scale of death in Darfur. And the utter silence (and sometimes denial) about the vast majority of deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan being done by muslims to muslims. It does seem that the muslim brotherhood only actually counts if the people getting killed are muslims and the people doing the killing are not.
I think that the problem lies with media coverage, rather than any actual denouncement. The denouncement by the BMC over the wooton Basset march is a good example. they denounced it in october, no news service picked it up until the extremist faction started shouting about it
