You indeed made a motivated and reasoned argument that Islam has problems with extremism, as I said I understand and agree with it. Perhaps there is some misun

You indeed made a motivated and reasoned argument that Islam has problems with extremism, as I said I understand and agree with it. Perhaps there is some misunderstanding. My response - in which i wrote bigotry not intolerance (not the same) - referred to your remark to asadlionpk, not to your explanation of your remark to me - in which you explained where you were coming from. Your exposition on extremism with regard to the nature of revelation in religion is all well and good, but imo you misapply this to the statement of an individual which says s he's quite sucesful with no-interest banking based on God's law. Perhaps he's a tolerant muslim living among quite tolerant/modern muslims in which case your remarks are not appropriate to his situation. No-interest banks can operate well in a non-sharia or non-fundamentalist state, or perhaps he's a liberal jew. I am not calling you names, if so I apologize as that's not my intention. I don't see why you think my earlier comment is not a rational argument: "but it's bigotry when you suggest asadlionpk is supportive of a culture of slavery, oppression of women and hate just for his remark that he's is doing fine with following the eternal law of God in this regard." So to me it seemed you suggested that everybody who follows the laws of God (in this regard) is an extremist with your quote that asadlionpk "argue for a fundamentalist sharia state or similar" or you did not meant to suggest this but then you should have expressed it differently, imho. It's very difficult or impossible for me to read it otherwise. I am not planning or thinking about moving anywhere. I meant other people do because of the misappropriation and misunderstandings about religion and culture. The political double standards you speak of also exist here, fortunately the media at times pierces through these double standards. Perhaps you don't expect it but I respect your comment and I've no reason to stamp you or call you names because of that. I even sympathize with it. I also have no problem with people refusing to shake hands with women on religious grounds unless it's a sign of disrespect. You can respect people and not giving them a hand, just as much as you can practice non-interest banking and participate in a moderate religious way of life.