The BBC's Double Standards

Andrew Sullivan notes the double standard of how the BBC website describes Christianity and Islam. The Christianity page is full of references to "story" and "claims". For example, "The story of his birth to a virgin, Mary in a stable in Bethlehem is told in the writings of Matthew and Luke in the New Testament." Or, " Jesus claimed that he spoke with the authority of God."

The Islam page, on the other hand, is full of statements of fact. For example, "Islam was gradually revealed to humanity by a number of earlier prophets, but the final and complete revelation of the faith was made through the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) in the 7th century CE." Or, "From this time on [after the conquest of Mecca] he was generally accepted as the true final Prophet of God (pbuh)."