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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-31-08 02:49 AM
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152. Actually, the difference is not the basics of religious laws in Judaism and Islam...
but the level of fundamentalism in their interpretation and application to state law.

The Old Testament does recommend savage punishments for disobeying religious laws. Deuteronomy recommends the death penalty for adultery, cursing one's mother or father, or working on the Sabbath. Leviticus recommends the same for blasphemy and orders people to stone relatives to death if they try to induce them to follow other gods.

The ancient texts of any religion tend to include violent punishments for disobedience to religious law.

The difference is that Israel is not run on the basis of religious fundamentalism, whereas Muslim theocracies are. Some (not all) Muslim theocracies are prepared to go back to the most violent laws and punishments of hundreds of years ago; whereas even the most fundie religious parties in Israel would not go to those sorts of extremes.

So the difference is not between different religions, but between fundamentalism - especially extreme fundamentalism - and secularism.
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