Originally Posted by SilentSunshine

This is a joke, right? Otherwise you're quite silly as well. Check your data.

You say in that post "Followers of Jesus claim that they do not live under the "old covenant." Blame the Jews for the atrocities if you want, but don't say that fundamental Christians believe in slaughter." Which is funny because fundamental Christians are the ones who are killing people. But like I said, you ignore the parts you disagree with and claim they "aren't Christian".

Point 1 - Islam holds Jesus, Moses, etc (the OT law is included) as approved by Allah. So, the socially bad parts of Christianity have the Islamic seal of approval.
Point 2 - The Qur'an and Hadith add many violent commands, even though there were written 2000 years or more after the violent portions of Jewish/Christian books.
Point 3 - My premise that goes farther than Dawkins, who considers Islam a "great evil," is that the texts the religion is based upon are worse. The qualifiers in the Islamic texts are such as "slay them wherever ye find them," "those who believe fight," and "strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them" sound very literal and not allegorical.
Point 4 - The nations that have a great majority* of Muslims are among the least free in the world today. It might be because the religion makes people enjoy such governance or simply not resist.

You are ignoring Christianity's history of the same things, plus you are adding context to the Biblical references in the post you linked above while quoting a translation to English with emphasis on terms taken out of context in this quote. You are illustrating my point that you are in denial.

Point 5 - Although some Christian/Jewish influences have been harmful, one of, if not the the freest nation that ever existed began with thoroughly Christian roots. The majority of the U.S. still claims Christianity, yet homosexuality is not illegal in any state, the media is not kept on a short leash or owned by the government, males, females, Buddhists, Muslims and Christians are all considered equal persons under the law. Christianity is not an official religion or the primary source of law, despite majority status. In short, I'm glad Islam did not contribute heavily to the founding of the U.S.

Founded with those concepts strongly pushed by the Freemasons, who wanted to speak freely about their religious beliefs because they had been under oppression under the European Christian dominated governments including England, which had a state church. It has been a free country for worship and rights for white Christians for centuries I will agree, but it hasn't been free for gays, blacks, minority immigrants or other religions for very long at all.

As of 2010 sodomy is not illegal in US states but this is a recent change:

Sodomy laws in the United States were largely a matter of state rather than federal jurisdiction, except for laws governing the U.S. Armed Forces. By 2002, 36 states had repealed all sodomy laws or had them overturned by court rulings. The remaining sodomy laws were invalidated by the 2003 U.S. Supreme Court decision Lawrence v. Texas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodomy_law

The court overturning religious opposition to sodomy laws that the states didn't in the last decade does not prove the US is somehow leaps and bounds in front of Islamic fundamentalist countries in regards to homosexuality. Plus, gay marriage is still repressed and actively so by Christian organizations and members, and without the courts freedoms wouldn't apply to minorities or minority religions. The civil rights movement didn't happen because everyone caught on, it had to be forced on the majority of the country. Within all of our lifetimes sodomy was illegal in the US and people went to jail for sodomy charges.

*I use the term majority to mean the greatest portion, and often more than half. Sirus seems to confuse "minority" with "majority," so I thought I'd clarify what I mean.

You didn't do a very good job, since as far as I remember the only majority Sirus referred to was the proportion of non-terrorist Muslims to terrorists and you seem to think that more than half of Muslims are terrorists. Here I can't tell if you mean raw numbers of Muslims or proportion of the population, but I'll bet you don't know that the raw majority of Muslims live in Asia and Africa so I'm going to guess you incorrectly meant raw numbers.