Why switch? Why not just highlight the bigoted and the radical among the Jews?
You do realise that you are asking for introspection by Muslims by using a wrong example. They can never see beyond the 'Judaism" and 'Islam' lines.
Coming back, you think the other non-rabid people are this blind not see such shortcomings?
You think the non-rabid people are this mute not to raise their voice against what is wrong?
Or you think that the non-rabid are this dumb not to guage what's being done in the name of religion?
Who are the supporters - it's the ordinary people!
Because the non-rabid want them to.
I am done with the whole coercion into such acts theory. Everyone has a choice, and people do choose.
There is the question of of our common experience - this was what I was pointing to and in addition, as I made the point before, we have become warped, it is not just that we are a brutal and brutalized peoples, you are right that it's our silence, it's the common person's silence, their lack of outrage, their inability to realize that they are, betrayed -- it's true of Muslims of Jews, of Hindus, of any religion in which faith in God has come to be replaced by a totalitarian fascistic approach to humanity and the experience of being religious, the very meaning of "religious" is warped into something that is an abomination - books proposing killing children, written by a Rabbi - it's an abomination, a betrayal.
More than all of these I think, the realization that we are all pretty much in the same boat, is an awareness, I think, can at least allow peoples to consider that they are not poles apart, that they are connected in a deep experience, that awakening one, is a kin to awakening all others who refuse to have their conscience betrayed, their confessional heritages warped.
can people see beyond Muslim and Jew and Hindu --- Yes, of course they can, if we give them a chance to.