Absolutely. But I think it’s safe to say that Christianity is demonstrably more (ahem) enlightened than Islam. Will we ever see female/gay imams like we have clergy? Will men and women always be segregated for worship in Islam? To name but two examples.
That is not to say this is by design. The reason is largely (but not solely) owing to the fact that Christianity is dying and HAD to evolve. Islam is a much younger religion and is growing.
Another problem is that many on the left (not the true left, but what Maajid Nawaaz calls the ‘regressive left’) willfully conflate criticism of 1400-year-old doctrine with bigotry against Muslims as people.
It is further forward, but it's largely been more developed nations as a whole, that's more of the reason I think. But as we've been more developed we've probably had a head start with modern science etc, and that doesn't exactly play well with religion. I suppose it's because of science why I've zero belief in any sort of "god", or any acts which are basically physically impossible.
I'm no expert but I think an imam is similar to a priest? But, the UK only had it's first woman priest in 1994, that's only 30 years ago. It was only 20 years ago when Dubai's property boom really kicked off and the West moved in.
We're no saints though, it wasn't that long ago when women were not allowed in working mens clubs, or the golf club, snooker club or whatever, and loads would still be that way if they could get away with it, probably some still do unofficially.
We should be much further ahead than we are. People were still driving around hammered in the 80's and people openly being very vocal about people of different skin colour, and some still are in some circles, people just like to pretend it doesn't exist here anymore. It's still here, it's just brushed under the carpet or hidden away behind closed doors.
Christianity is dying as people are becoming better educated, and being a bit more realistic. But, as most of the white Christian nations have gone through massive development they're basically at the top of the rapid growth curve. That can't go on forever and now they've slowed down economically and the rich have taken over, it means life is crap for younger folk, so they have less kids so Christianity will dwindle due to these reasons too. There is only Africa which is really still booming population wise and Christian, but those folks will get the same flak from some white Christians as it's not really about religion, it's more about colour, the religion is just used as an excuse I think.
Yeah, it's fine to criticise the Qur'an or parts of it, and that doesn't necessarily need to be against Muslim people, but the fact they're Muslim or a different colour, which is what largely weaponizes it. There are many ways to criticise things though, and some ways work a lot better than others.
