Making fals equivalency between Christian and islamic 'fundemantalists'

[Justtristo]

I hear a lot ,lately, about how US christianity has its own 'fundamentalists' who are 'just as extreme' as the Muslim ones.

This is demonstrably nonsense. The behaviour of your average loony baptist,creationist biblical literalist if observed in the Muslim would would be unbelievably moderate ,liberal even.

Christian loons don't kill their daughters for 'dishonouring' the family, they don't start mass riots and storm the embassies of Muslim countries because of some insult that Muslims have made against Christians

There is simply no equivalence at all.

Well since the 17th century Western Civilization has been through both the Scientific Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment. The Islamic world has not undergone those changes (especially the Age of Enlightenment). Thus is not surprising today's Islamic fundamentalists are little different to what Christian fanatics were back in the 17th century.

For example; I believe there was very little difference between the Taliban State in Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia, to say Geneva during the time of John Calvin or Puritan New England. All of those places were theocratic states which brutally persecuted anybody (John Calvin sanctioned the burning of Michael Servetus for heresy in Gevena) who were deemed a heretic or infidel. Not to mention being fond of executing girls and women accused of being witches (Salem Witchcraft Trials). There was also the Puritan Commonwealth of England, which was a Protestant regime about as repressive as Taliban Afghanistan was. For example; they banned the celebration of Christmas, strict observance of the Christian Sabbath and closed down theaters.