<i>Why expect more from Muslims than those of other religious faiths?</i><p>Let&#x27;s get this straight: <i>all</i> faith leads to backwardness and death. The more consistently a faith is practiced, the more pronounced this becomes.<p>In the Islamic world, people tend to defer to religion more on most crucial moral issues than they do in the West. (Although with the rise of the religious right, this too is changing, and will destroy our nation if it progresses much further.) This is because the West is still riding off of the embers of the Enlightenment, whose main contribution to mankind was to muzzle religion.<p>I do not hold Islam to a higher standard than Christianity - they are equally poisonous to life, liberty and the intellect. We have only a short time - 20 to 40 years, maybe - before a return to Christianity puts us down a path to where we are as enslaved and impoverished as the Islamic world is today.