A Simple Rule

[Mister Agenda]

There definitely seems to be people getting more uncomfortable when islam is criticised, as opposed to Christianity. That makes no sense. They are both bonkers religions that are harmful and need gutting (ideally).

Perhaps because most of us are from majority-Christian countries, we tend to criticize Christianity more intelligently than we criticize Islam. When we talk about bad actions by Christians, we tend to focus on the specific subsections of Christianity involved. The Catholic Church has a problem with its hierarchy defending pedophile priests, the WBC is the church that pickets the funerals or soldiers, the Lord's Resistance Army kidnaps children, the Christian Identity movement is openly racist, Dominionists are trying to take over the USA and impose their version of sharia. But when it's Muslims acting badly, we have a tendency to just say 'Islam is doing this or that' unless we have a reason to be more specific for clarity, like saying 'Boko Haram' so you know we're talking about trouble in Nigeria or 'ISIS' so you know we're referring to the Syria/Iraq region. Otherwise we're happy to hang it on Islam, and pretend the brave Muslim Kurds (for instance) who are fighting ISIS don't deserve to be distinguished from ISIS.

In fact, I sympathise more with islam because they often have people actually threatening their life for disbelief rather than just social isolation etc. Once they are in a free country, then they are choosing to continue with the bullshit, rather than having to.

What percentage of 'they' are you talking about?

Islam, muslim, whatever. If they are making their religion their identity, that's even more insane.

You're using such a loose definition of insanity that it includes most of the world's population.