Why do the Christian Right and Radical Muslims have so much in common?

Question

Hate for Progressives.
Hate for Liberals.
Hate for Freedom of Speech.
Pushing Religion down everyones throat.

Limit women's rights.
Ban Homosexuality.

Answer 1

They are both perversions of their professed Religion in a manner that appears to be a form of mental illness.

Each has taken a religion promoting peace and inclusion and made it a religion of serious abuse and hate, with more in common with each other than the mainstream of the religion they claim.

Together with their Jewish version called Kahanists, they are like a gang of thugs playing with fireworks in an ammunition dump. All three would hate any sort of peace in the Mideast, and have conspired together to prevent it, even as they play a three way hate fest.

Research has begun to show the existence of a pathology called Right Wing Authoritarianism that is a common denominator in all three groups, and why they cannot see that in themselves even as it is obvious to everyone else

RWA is defined as the convergence of three attitudinal clusters:

* Authoritarian submission: A high degree of submission to the authorities who are perceived to be established and legitimate in the society in which one lives.
* Authoritarian aggression: A general aggressiveness, directed against various persons, that is perceived to be sanctioned by established authorities.
* Conventionalism: A high degree of adherence to the social conventions that are perceived to be endorsed by society and its established authorities.

They are all Hostile and mean spirited to outsiders, feeling and acting persecuted even when in control. Willing to take the most violent path, even when unnecessary, or even when counter productive.

They uncritically accept statements from their leadership, no matter how crazy, and reject obvious facts, often inferring bizzare deductions from other input. Will presume that any enemy speaks false even if they agree with what they say. Michael Moore's SiCKO is a good example.

Accept the most heinous behavior from their own side, but react violently and bitterly at any slight by others. This makes them feel even more isolated, fearful, and besieged. And makes them extraordinarily dangerous no matter what Flavor of Fundamentalism (and it is always fundamentalism) they prefer.

There is a growing body of evidence that trauma and abuse, particularly in childhood, can lead to this pathology, though education and treatment can reverse some of the damage.

Answer 2

Extremism is a unique and fortunately small faction of each religion that tends to be very exculsivistic. I really thought that your question was going to get a huge response from people agreeing to that. Instead people made it into a republican vs democrat issue, perhaps because of your inclusion of women's rights and gay rights.
But to answer your primary question, both religion's radicals contend that anyone who's outside of their exact belief system is not just wrong, but dangerous and should be eliminated. This is a huge similarity.

I'm not a liberal, I actually don't commit to one party, but people need to stop listening to the talk radio hosts who preach one thing and live the opposite. When I was reading the answer up there claiming republican's moral values ( Foley, Haggard, Guliani, Swaggard, Bakker, and these are just the ones thumping the bible with one hand and breaking the ten commandments with the other) and I'm reading how us Christians never blow anyone up ( I guess they don't watch the news or read any history books) and I'm reading threats about how expressing your idea by asking this question is grounds for being reported and it makes me feel hopeless. Do we need any more proof that fundamentalists are the same whether they wear a turban, a blue suit or a yamaka.

Answer 3

nicely i'm a "liberal" who's familiar with that the "radicals" are plenty nearer to mainstream than people desire to pretend. i think of the factor regardless of the fact it relatively is to marginalize the those that do help the radicals by making use of calling it what it relatively is. you're precise regardless of the undeniable fact that. The word "few" is innacurate. yet i could relatively make that mistake than the conservative mistake of pretending like "the conflict on terror" is doing something yet bobbing up greater RADICALS. conflict CREATES TERRORISTS. The invasion of Iraq grew to become into the superb recruiting probability the militant Muslims ever had.

Answer 4

Right-wing radicals will be right-wing radicals, no matter which God they say created everything.
When I hear a right-winger talk about "how things should be", a flashback of Osama preaching against homsexuality, and the evils of America, on one of his videos, enters my mind.
They sound alike, heck even Iran banned abortion.
And you would never get Osama to argue against the comment..."get rid of all liberals".
We have seen christian snipers and muslim snipers.
We have witnessed truck bombs from muslim radicals in the world trade center, and christian fanatics in Oklahoma city.

Cults are cults, no matter what religious symbol they wear, and that is what all these radicals are members of....CULTS.

Answer 5

They show stop fighting and kiss like like MannCoulter and RushBimbo. They both are intolerant of people of other religions and different points of view. They have their own beliefs and want to force you to follow them.

Answer 6

I know, they want to ban the same kinds of things. You would figure we should be the best of friends. Ban Homosexuality, limit womens rights, outlaw premarital sex. Use the Holy book as a history book.

Answer 7

There is no "Christian right". That is just a made up term by paranoid secular liberals.

And Christians have absolutely NOTHING in common with radical muslims.

When a Muslim commits an act of terrorism it is done in the name of his religion. If a person who happens to be a Christian commits an act of terrorism it is not usually done in the name of Christianity.

Mainstream Muslims mostly do not condemn acts of Muslim terrorism. Mainstream Christians are the first to condemn acts of terrorism perpetrated by so-called Christians because they know that they are not real Christians.

I will concede that there are a very small number of so-called Christians who bomb abortion clinics and so forth in the name of their "Christian" beliefs, but real Christians widely condemn these acts. Moderate Muslims are mostly silent in speaking out against radical Islamic jihadists.

Mohammed was a warmonger.
Jesus was a peaceful philosopher.

Answer 8

Narcissistic extremists infiltrate ALL religions, and secular organizations. These shout the loudest and wreak the most havoc. They simply hijack an organized group of people to use as pawns in their game of chess.

Answer 9

Its sad and true and will never be better until both can see the error of their ways.

Answer 10

They both think modern western society is sinful and want to return to the values of the past.