It's fine if you don't want to criticize religions, but you cannot expect everyone else to adhere to that same practice simply because you do.
Just because you might open doors for women doesn't mean that someone will necessarily return the favor. But if you find that practice to be respectful and honorable, then you do it anyway, even when no one does it back to you.
I'm not going to STOP criticizing Islam because you don't criticize my belief system. I criticize things because they make no sense to me, or because I think they can be better than what they currently are, not because I am engaging in some sort of strange negative "quid pro quo" battle.
I freely criticize ALL religions, though apparently you feel as if Islam gets more than its fair share. Maybe it does...maybe it's like when someone tells you not to do something, it makes you want to do it even more, just to show that you can...kind of like those Danish cartoons.
Personally, I find Islam pretty easy to criticize, but I could say the same about Catholicism, Scientology, the Church of Latter Day Saints, Wicca,...many other religious belief systems.
If you think we're a bunch of rude westerners because we criticize religions, then so be it. I'd rather have someone who really doesn't know me think that I am rude than have to curb my natural tendency to question authority and ask hard questions when things don't seem logical or fair to me.
It's fine if you don't want to criticize religions, but you cannot expect everyone else to adhere to that same practice simply because you do.
Just because you might open doors for women doesn't mean that someone will necessarily return the favor. But if you find that practice to be respectful and honorable, then you do it anyway, even when no one does it back to you.
I'm not going to STOP criticizing Islam because you don't criticize my belief system. I criticize things because they make no sense to me, or because I think they can be better than what they currently are, not because I am engaging in some sort of strange negative "quid pro quo" battle.
I freely criticize ALL religions, though apparently you feel as if Islam gets more than its fair share. Maybe it does...maybe it's like when someone tells you not to do something, it makes you want to do it even more, just to show that you can...kind of like those Danish cartoons.
Personally, I find Islam pretty easy to criticize, but I could say the same about Catholicism, Scientology, the Church of Latter Day Saints, Wicca,...many other religious belief systems.
If you think we're a bunch of rude westerners because we criticize religions, then so be it. I'd rather have someone who really doesn't know me think that I am rude than have to curb my natural tendency to question authority and ask hard questions when things don't seem logical or fair to me.