Of course there is, don’t be ridiculous. But we were talking about Islam and Christianity - not a sect of Christianity and the Nazis. My point is that the lived reality of Christianity wasn’t all about freedom and the lived reality of Islam isn’t authoritarian. Just wanted inject a little historical realism into the conversation.
Just saw the other comment… hold on, I’ll add on here:
Islam, historically speaking, actually had a much better track record regarding heterogentiy. The Ottoman empire was pluralistic, pretty much until the European powers began to insist (around the mid-19th century) that they adopt European mode of state craft. And while Many Islamic majority countries are not exactly bastions of religious tolerance (especially those that are Western Allies), Europe isn’t looking like a land of tolerance right now with regards to refugees. France has been especially keen to “integrate” immigrants from their former colonies in ways that are not helpful. Part of what makes the US so good at this sort of intergration is that at the end of the day, we don’t really care if one beccomes a specific kind of citizen, but that they become a tax-paying one primarily. Other than the extreme right, most people really don’t care if someone here speaks the language or becomes secular.
