It is putting form over substance, isn't it?
The thing I find inconsistent (hypocritical?) about conservative fundamentalist Christians is that happily point to the OT to support their political views on gays (Jesus said nothing about homosexuals) or abortion (Jesus said nothing about that either -- neither does the OT forbid it, for that matter), and their other favored conservative causes. They point to this from from Matthew 5:17 to support the authority of the OT:
"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.
But then, when you asked them about some of the other things in the OT, like how it's OK to beat your slaves (as long as you don't kill them, then you have to pay a fine), and the stuff I posted earlier, you get: "You're right! If we were still under the Law. That's over with. Those verses don't apply to us today."
What the conservative "fundamentalists" do is interpret the OT (and NT) to support their political agenda, all the while maintaining their position is God's word and therefore the truth, and on that there can be no compromise! It is the exact same thing that the conservative fundamentalists Muslems do to try to justify their acts on religious grounds.
The evil, IMO, is not Islam as a religion, but people who manipulate interpretations of religious text to support violence or hate, and maintain that their position is sanctioned by God.