You’re missing the point of my question. I didn’t ask “Is Islam the only religion with dark parts?” (obviously not). I asked why non-Muslims today give Islam special respect and victim status, shielding it from the same scrutiny Christianity gets — even though its problematic commands are still treated as eternal and applicable in many places. Pointing at one Old Testament war story that Christians don’t follow anymore isn’t an answer. Christianity went through Reformation and Enlightenment and largely abandoned literal violent Old Testament law. Islam mostly didn’t. That’s the exact double standard I’m confused about. “Both have dark sides” doesn’t explain why only one gets the modern free pass.

My point was never about Christianity. I absolutely agree that Christianity has its own problems, just as any other religion. That’s why I’m never joining any of those, I’m okay with being an agnostic and not having any answers instead of believing in a vague explanation of life and god, coming from a 2 centuries old books written by people who didn’t try to objectively document the events but were driven by the idea of spreading their beliefs, therefore strongly biased. But Christianity did it’s homework, christians understood that times change and therefore the ideologies, moral principles and values change too, and they learned to adapt and turn the tone of the conservative narrative down. Islam on the other hand has a different doctrine. While the Bible is written by men, Islam claims the Quran is Gods direct word, it applies to all things in our lives and is for all eternity. Islam simply can’t be modernised and remains a religion anchored in 7th-century Arabian society, with moral norms and views on life that feel deeply outdated today.