ISIS and “Christian” Extremists: Both of them are terrorist organizations.

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4. Of similar beliefs, but dissimilar actions

I don't know if it's that Christian fundamentalists, who incidentally really are Christians with no need for hand-washing scare quotes, lack the courage of their convictions, or don't really believe in their own words, or are just less desperate with more to lose, but while you will get plenty saying gays and atheists and infidels should be wiped from the face of the Earth and that we should institute biblical law, very very few of them, thankfully, are willing to put this into action. ISIS is not a massive group among Muslims, but they number well into 5 digits of people who really are willing to kill/die to try and return to a medieval theocracy, including using appropraitely barbaric means.

I just don't see that so much with their ideological kinfolk in the middle brother among desert monotheisms, or eldest brother even. Uganda et al have some homophobes who make Pat Robertson look like Harvey Milk as far as actions rather than words go it's true, and there are various religio-tribal conflicts featuring Christians against Muslims in Northern Africa that claim lives aplenty, but there is no organized Christian fundamentalist theocratic army, despite the best efforts of some Talibornagain staff officers to turn our own into one, out there taking territory and turning their hegemony into a Cromwellian wet-dream of Puritanism, and it's worth noting that Christian organized mayhem only takes place on a large scale among the impoverished and desperate; I doubt we have to fear machete-wielding 700 Club attack squads soon.

The risk of Xian extremism is however more real in the US at least in another way. We aren't likely to be beheaded if we disagree, but we are likely to be legally, politically, and normatively marginalized and demonized thanks to the Christisn supermajority at the ballot box. The US is not likely to have fundamentalism forced on us at knifepoint. It's just quite likely to vote it into place, and has actually done so in a few cases already.