traptunderice wroteAh so Christianity is able to remain in check through Enlightenment values? May I introduce you to Proposition 8. Both Christianity and Islam encroach on the public sphere and both need to be oppressed according to your criterion. Your emphasis on Islam is worrisome to me because it comes off as unabashed racism when you cast a blind eye to Christianity's growing medieval rejections of valid argumentation and logic.
I don't cast a blind eye to it. Using exceptions to the rule like prop 8 isn't honest debating, not to mention that it was overturned because it was unconstitutional, showing that secularism still does trump religious idiocy; furthermore, my eurocentrism limits my perspective somewhat, so forgive me if I overlook American phenomena. I will agree, now that you mention it, that Christianity in America is becoming very dangerous indeed, whereas Islam has not yet had the effect there that it has in European countries, like France or the UK.
Also, it nae propagates ignorance? Check out the Channel 4 program with Richard Dawkins on Faith Schools in the UK, you should be able to find it on youtube. One third of UK state-funded public schools are religiously oriented, and the Muslim ones are churning out students who don't believe in evolution, think the Koran is scientifically accurate, and that Shariah is an inevitable consequence.