Ricky Gervais Nailed It on the Failures of Religion Where It Supports Backward Culture Rather than SpiritualtyWhich is NOT Unique or Specific to ONLY ONE RELIGION

The right wing nut Islamophobes blame religion rather than recognizing that there are traditional cultural issues in places like Pakistan and other parts of the world. It is not really so much about religion as it is a cultural clash between those who want their world to stay the same because they fear change - the local conservatives - and because they fear God Will Hurt them if they deviate in any way from how they've always done things and how their religious 'experts' tell them to do it. Those experts can't and won't change, because they lose their power if they admit that their predecessors might have been wrong about something. If clerics were wrong before, people stop believing they are the authority on what is correct now.

We have people and ideas that are every bit as evil here, and we have the same problems with conservatives who claim moral values for what is really a resistance to change, a fear of new or different, and an authoritarian need to smash and punish violently any challenge to conformity, because that scares the authoritarians terribly.

Here's our American Christian Taliban, part of the Republican party, which has left the mainstream and embraced the fringies and nut jobs and extremists.  Charlie Fuqua, Republican from Arkansas who wants parents to be able to legally execute kids for being disrespectful.

Republican Candidate In Arkansas Says Parents Should Seek Death Penalty Against ‘Rebellious Children’

By Judd Legum on Oct 8, 2012 at 6:50 pm

A candidate for the Arkansas legislature, Charlie Fuqua, says children who don’t demonstrate “respect for parents” should be put to death, the Arkansas Times reports. Fuqua is a former member of the Arkansas legislature and has received support from the Arkansas Republican Party and two sitting members of Congress.
Here’s the key passage from Fuqua’s 2012 book, “God’s Law: The Only Political Solution“:

The maintenance of civil order in society rests on the foundation of family discipline. Therefore, a child who disrespects his parents must be permanently removed from society in a way that gives an example to all other children of the importance of respect for parents. The death penalty for rebellious children is not something to be taken lightly. The guidelines for administering the death penalty to rebellious children are given in Deut 21:18-21:

Fuqua helpfully notes that “This passage does not give parents blanket authority to kill their children.” Rather, parents would have to “follow the proper procedure in order to have the death penalty executed against their children.” Fuqua assures the reader that, in his view, the procedure would “rarely be used.” The threat of death would, however, “be a tremendous incentive for children to give proper respect to their parents.’
Fuqua, reached by the Huffington Post on the issue, declined to comment.
Fuqua’s book previously came under scrutiny for advocating expelling all Muslims from the United States. In response, Fuqua said he believe his view on Mulims were “fairly well-accepted by most people.”

Yes and Fuqua wants to kill any convicted criminal who isn't rehabilitated to his satisfaction within two years, to save money, and to expel Muslims from this country.  He also believes that there is a liberal/muslim anti-christ conspiracy against Jesus......just a whole long laundry list of horrors in the name of religion.  He personifies the conservative desire to hurt people 'for their own good', because it makes conservatives feel better to do that when they're challenged.

Sure sounds to me exactly the same - crazy Taliban, crazy conservative Christians.  They rely on the same religious justification that is the foundation for Judaism, Christianity and Islam in exactly the same way.  NO DIFFERENCE WHATSOEVER between them, except that one is there, and the one is here. 

Both justify terrible ideas by invoking God, and both hate science and progress.