Christianity = Islam? Huh?

A couple of quick caveats before I begin:

1. My girlfriend's best friend is lesbian that is absolutely huge on gay rights and the like, so I get a regular dose of the subject every time I see her - we're talking at least once a week here.
2. I'm an atheist and a rather proud one at that. I'm not the kind that rubs religious people's noses in it, mind you, but, as far as I'm concerned, religion just doesn't make any sense to me.

That said...

Rosie O'Donnell, a lesbian that is an absolute case study in my theory that gays have an opposite sense of fashion compared to their straight compatriots (i.e. gay men have fashion sense, whereas most straight men don't, and gay women don't have fashion sense, whereas most straight women do), blurted out between feedings that, "And just one second, radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America." Now, let's keep something in mind here - in fundamentalist Islamic doctrine, it's okay to kill gays. Furthermore, they actually practice what they preach in some parts of the world. We're talking state policy here, not isolated incidents.

I know that Christianity is certainly not clean on this issue. I remember the case of Matt Shepard, along with the play produced in response to that. I also know about Jerry Falwell's thoughts on the subject, as well as the infamous Chick Publications cartoons. That said, fundamentalist Christian dogma, contrary to what you might think about the Bush administration's stand, is not official state dogma. Killing gay people is a crime in the United States, just like killing anyone else; it doesn't matter if God told you to do it or not.

Come to think of it, it doesn't matter if Allah told you to do it or not, so I guess Rosie does have a point - radical Christianity and radical Islam are, in fact, just as threatening in a country like the United States... hardly at all. Let's keep it that way.