Some time ago my youngest urged me to watch an animated TV show called Castlevania, based, apparently, on a video game. Its depiction of the mediaeval Catholic Church was, literally and metaphorically, ridiculously cartoonish. All cackling, demonic priests, burning ‘stronk wahmen’ at the stake merely for being good at science.
Try, though, to imagine making a similarly vile calumny against any other religion. For instance, villainous rabbis murdering Christian children. Unless you’re Candace Owens, you’d immediately recognise such ludicrous nastiness as anti-Semitic propaganda straight out of the Protocols.
How about a TV show about Muslim Arabs putting entire cities to the sword. Or kidnapping white women and boys by the hundreds of thousands to sell into sex slavery in the harems of the Ottoman empire. Even though that actually happened, you’d never be allowed to say so without incurring howls of ‘Islamophobia!’, not to mention a fatwa or two.
