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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]8:51, I believe the Bible is full of horrible statements, too.[/quote]

PP have YOU read the entire Bible and the entire Koran?  How could you make any comparison otherwise?  The old testament is chock full of crazy stuff (see my favorite 2 Kings 2:23), but people IGNORE it.  That is the fundamental difference.

We cannot pretend that Christianity and Islam are two sides of the same coin.  [u]People are practicing Christianity in a completely different way than people are practicing Islam[/u].  It doesn't even matter what their actual books say because Christians don't really follow anything in the Bible anyway.

Christians don't even follow seemingly innocuous, specific rules that are in the New Testament.  For example, in the new testament of the Bible (which most practicing Christians would tell you is the part of the Bible that we "really" have to follow) St. Paul [i]specifically[/i] states that women [i]have[/i] to cover their hair in church and not speak out.  How does this play out in practice?  The vast majority of churches in the world do NOT force or even pressure women to cover their hair, and the ones that do, women end up wearing wispy little scarves or fancy hats, sometimes only during parts of the service.  There are women preachers and pastors all over the place.  Another example: the Bible specifically mentions homosexuality as a sin, and there are now tons of churches who will marry gay people.  You might say "oh that's St. Paul."  How about what Jesus says about divorce?  Jesus says specifically to divorce ONLY in the case of adultery.  How many Christians do you know who follow or believe that?

So essentially, Christians are mostly not really following the Bible, and I would argue that's a really good thing.

Meanwhile, the Koran simply suggests modesty for women, and the result: hijabs covering every little wisp of hair and clothes covering every bit of skin other than hands and feet, women covered in black sheets from head to toe.

It just seems like a difference in practice- the standard interpretation seems a lot more strict in Islam.

I don't know if this speaks to a fundamental difference in the essential truths of the two religions because I do not know enough about Islam.

But at this point, it is hard to defend Islam.  But I am not going to criticize it as a religion, either, because I do not know enough.  And I don't think there is a damn thing any of us can do about radical Islam, or terrorism.  It is going to be a global, diffuse threat that exists for a long time.  And the only people that can reform Islamic practice is Muslims themselves.  It can be done- look a the Mormons!

Good luck, Muslims, and God speed.[/quote]

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