[Skybird]

Islam is not a religion like Christianity or Judaism, and even more: it is more political than religious an ideology anyway. This comparision that you try, is tried very often - but it is completely ignoring the nature of Islam. Primarily it is a political movement - the religion only has a supporting secondary function.

As long as this is not understood in the West, any approach to and any understanding of Islam must necessarily fail from beginning on. Even more, in our secular culture that differs between religion and politics, we render ourselves as defenceless to Islam's political movement, that it tries to make untouchable to opposition and criticism and questioning, under the protecting umbrella of guaranteed Western freedom of religious practicing. This is not what our constitutional guarantees for freedom of religion have been meant for: it is not meant to make political agendas unavailable for critical review, opposition and political dispute.