The extremists will blow you up while the "moderates" legislate against you.
This same statement can be applied to Christians, too, right? Extremist Christians have been known to bomb abortion clinics. Christians have also been fighting to turn the United States into a theocracy. We've seen a recent election where Christians openly state the belief that you have to swear on the bible to serve in congress.
What's the phrase I see get thrown around a lot? "Whataboutism"? "But her emails"?
Not all ideologies are equal. Christianity has its problems, but it's also been through multiple reformations and has significantly softened its stance on a lot of issues. Every attempt to reform Islam has resulted in the reformists being murdered. If you really want to compare the two, we can compare the two on a belief-by-belief basis, and I can 100% assure you Christianity will come out on top as the far more moderate belief structure, much like how it would look far more extreme compared to Buddhism and all of them would look mild compared to the Aztec religion.
I agree that Christianity as a whole is more moderate than Islam as a whole, but... That wasn't "whataboutism." The political spectrum is just that, a spectrum. It's not a binary thing. There are similarities at the same time there are differences between Christianity and Islam, which is what I was getting at. They're both considered conservative belief systems, but on the political spectrum Islam is definitely more conservative than Christianity. The extremists of both are even more conservative. ---
