(December 4, 2015 at 7:53 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I don't know about Atheists defending Islam, but a lot of liberals sure seem to. I too have noticed the double standard with Christianity vs Islam in the American liberal mentality. Like, it's ok to bash Christians/Christianity but politically incorrect to do it to Muslims/Islam. Considering Islam is much more extreme and far right on social issues, I too don't understand why this is the case. The only thing I can think of is that us small minded Americans generally tend to think of Christians as white/European descent and Muslims as brown/Arabic. So it becomes a "minority" type thing.
Their defense of Islam seems to be rooted in the inability of conservatives to separate radical Islam and the rest of Islam. The inability to see that many many Muslims disapprove of the way Al Qaeda and ISIS are doing things. Imagine if Christianity were blamed for the Planned Parenthood Attacks, and all Christians were treated as if they were violent. Imagine if someone said that we shouldn't allow in any Christian Refugees because they might shoot up a planned parenthood clinic.
People mistake this for taking the side of Islam, as if there are only two sides and as if Islam and Christianity are at war with one another. Liberals believe good Muslims and good Christians should be able to practice their religion (so long as it doesn't interfere with anyone else) however they like.
Some of this seems to be projection. You have many christians who praised the planned parenthood shooter and various other Christian extremist activities. So they begin to feel the other side is sympathetic to the Islamic extremists because they're sympathetic to Christian ones. And many others probably pick up on this, so even if they aren't sympathetic to the extremists, they side with the people who do and pick up on their feeling that liberals are pro-Islam and Anti-Christian.
