Religions integrating public life are not uniquely prone to totalitarianism

Evidence

If the term “totalitarian” is to be applied to Islam because the religion is not restricted to private life, then it also must be applied to Halakhic Judaism, much of Evangelical Christianity, and much of classical Hinduism, Roman Catholicism, Confucianism, and Shintoism. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 635

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader analysis of Orientalist bias against Islam discussed elsewhere in this book and in Edward Said’s Orientalism (noted at location 629).

Related

• Western ideological camps all reduce Islam to a scapegoat (similarity 0.79)
• Modern secular authorities have displaced Islam as the arbiter of Muslim social life (similarity 0.79)