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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
From that same study that suggested 2/3 of Muslims in Germany, Austria, Sweden, France, Netherlands, and Belgium think religious rules are more important than secular laws (percentages weighed against total population):
European Muslims (six countries) -
5.2 million might think religious rules are more important than secular laws
5 million don't want homosexuals as friends
4.2 million think the West is out to destroy them
3.8 million think Jews can't be trusted
Compared to American Christians:
24.5 million think religious rules are more important than secular laws
25 million don't want homosexuals as friends
49.1 million think Muslims are out to destroy them
20 million think Jews can't be trusted
Worth looking at the numbers if that's what you want to look at. When you name a high percentage in a small Muslim community, I find it difficult to give it the same weight when right next door there appears to be a much bigger problem in terms of scale.
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Why do I have to choose one or the other? I cheerfully denounce fundamentalist, conservative religion whenever I come across it. What I don't understand is why so many liberals who consider ultra conservative Christians their enemies hold their tongue when it comes to ultra conservative Muslims.
But surely the issue is that American fundamentalist Christians aren't stoning adulteresses to death, murdering politicians who stand up for Muslims, and setting off bombs in nightclubs and family parks. 95 per cent of the people killed in terrorist attacks in the last 20 years have been killed by jihadists. That matters.