So it's moral to treat one group differently than another because you fear one group more?
Yes, and I don't see why not. If it's just your neck on the line, risk your life if you feel the cause is important enough. However, when one has children, it's not so easy to risk their lives for one's own cause.
That might not seem "fair" in some childish playground way, but it is moral.
This is essentially a kid picking on a weaker kid and leaving the bully alone because he's bigger and badder and could hurt him.
He isn't "picking on a weaker kid". He's doing his job as a professor. He isn't punching Christians or stealing their lunch money. He's doing research and expressing his scholarly views. You might not agree with him, and I might not agree with him either, but that doesn't mean that he should be painted as a bully.
Don't you understand that one of the great benefits of a free society is that scholars are free to critique their own society, and we are free to benefit from that whether we disagree or not? You should be thanking him.
Essentially he's saying he criticizes Christianity but not Islam because Christians aren't going to kill his kids.
No, he criticizes Christianity because Christianity is not perfect and deserves criticism. He
isn't criticizing them
because he doesn't feel safe criticizing Islam. He's simply doing his job in the case of Christians.
So he's giving Christians the short end of the stick because they are nicer to him.
No, he's giving them what they deserve. He is treating them with justice. He's treating them like mature adults. He's simply afraid to do so in the case of Muslims.
You should be happy that he feels free enough to be honest with Christians instead of cowering in fear instead. You should appreciate that he is sharing with Christians his scholarly criticisms of them. Even if Christians disagree with him overall, they might learn something that will benefit them. Muslims, sadly, won't benefit from him. It's their loss.
Christians aren't getting the short end of the stick. They are getting the opposite end. It is Muslims that are being treated like wild animals. That is the short end.
eudaimonia,
Mark