At Salon.com , Juan Cole asks what the differences between Christian fundamentalists, like Sarah Palin, and Islamic fundamentalists are? Lipstick is the answer he finds. That she’s not wearing a burka or having her daughter flogged and stoned for adultery might be another.
But those are about the only differences between Pentecostals—at least the ones I know—and radical Muslims that I can find.
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