Test Slams Christianity, Lauds Islam

[Don Dresden]

The Emperor of Japan first let those meek Christian monks loose, because after all they preached only fasting, submission and bollocks about the spirit world...but then he heard a Portuguese executive claiming Japan would soon follow in the net, much as Latin America did...and cleaned the house.

An interesting parallel.  The Japanese seem to pick and choose the religious customs they like and ignore those they don't; e.g., as they say, "married Shinto and buried Buddhist."  Adding a little Christianity to the mix might have worked there, as it has in Korea in modern times, except that the Japanese figured out that it wasn't just adding a new flavor to the religion buffet that the new guys had in mind, but conquest.  

Likewise, America is traditionally an open-minded country and while it may not adopt different ideas en masse it at least tolerates the differences.  Or it does until it becomes clear that the differences are not compatible with the American way.  

Clitorectomies, stonings, wife beatings, etc. don't pass the smell test for most people in the US.  When you add hijacking planes and flying them into buildings, passengers igniting shoes and crotches, etc. it's really surprising that the diaper heads get any traction at all in the US.  Like the Japanese of the earlier era, most Americans can tell the difference between benign proselytizing and "my way or the highway" backed up by sword.