I now regularly read about the changes in urban life when the Taliban or other Islamic fundamentalists gain control. This has happened in Afghanistan on a widespread bases, in Pakistan, in Syria and Mali.
There seems to be a strong backlash in American Christian communities because the Muslim controls put severe restrictions on Christian practices. The first thing to go are Christian symbols such as crosses worn publicly, crosses on top of churches, church bells and loud prayer and Christian music that spill onto the street. There are other such restrictions on visible Christianity and visible Christian practices.
This suppression of non-Islamic religions is an ancient practice called dhimmi. This process is familiar to us Jews who have lived under these restrictions for 1,000 years. My problem is with the outrage that Christians are now expressing about the suppression of their religion.
This is pure hypocrisy.
The Muslim community, in nearly every European country, has been suppressed. An example would be the obvious banning of head scarves and related dressing in France and several Mediterranean Christian countries. A more significant and more impactful form of repression has been the outlawing of halal meat preparation in most of the countries bordering the North Sea. (Demark, Sweden, Norway and Poland)
Christians always give excuses for their bad behavior such as the need for public identification or animal cruelty. These are excuses for repression of Islam. It is repression nevertheless.
I see no problem with Muslims reacting to contemporary Christian bad behavior especially since that bad Christian behavior has always been done to Jews in Christian societies without any hesitation. (The ban on halal meat is also a ban on kosher meat.)