I think there's a difference between "people criticising something" and "criticism of something".
Most people who lay into Islam don't seem to have much of a clue what they're complaining about. If you look at its basic tenets it's a monotheistic, philanthropic, gynephobic code of behaviour - exactly like Christianity. The distinguishing factor is that Christians seem to have moved with the times: the Bible has just as many incitements to go forth and crusade as the Quran, but no-one takes them seriously any more. Similarly, the Bible waffles on about "Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord", but that (thankfully) is no longer the preponderant dynamic in Christian relationships. There is still a strong vein of modern Muslim thought that it is incumbent on the woman to veil her face so as not to tempt the man, i.e. if he fancies you it's clearly your fault and you can't expect him to show any decency in his behaviour, because come on: he's the man. Thus the Australian imam who said that if unveiled women got raped it was their own fault, because they were like unto a plate of "uncovered meat" in the sight of hungry dogs, etc. etc. This sort of thought process should have died out two millennia ago but it's still being peddled by the idiocrats.

Disclaimer: not Christian, not Muslim, not anything.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 12:54, Reply)