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We need to walk our talk
Fighting nazis? No internment camps
Fighting USSR? no HUAC
Fighting fundamentalism? No fundamentalism
I get the point that dogmatism is dangerous regardless of the form, but Christianity and Islam are not equivalent.
Whereas a Christian fundamentalist is likely to believe that a gay couple should not be able to lawfully marry, an Islamic fundamentalist is likely to believe that they should be thrown from a roof.
I can freely depart from the congregation of the First Baptist Church of Podunk. A Muslim, however, becomes an apostate at the risk of losing his life.
An adultress in a Christian community runs the risk of some serious slut shaming. An Islamist may very well believe that Allah mandates that the adultress be stoned to death. Yes, you can find a similar injunction in the Old Testament, but most Christians are probably not even aware of that.
Christianity has been through a lot of scrutiny from the outside and as a result the way it is practiced has been modified.
Islam needs to go through similar scrutiny, and IMO this whataboutism really is not helpful. We need to stop pretending that Christianity is stuck in the same place Islam is.