Religious conservatives in the US more liberal than the Muslim masses are

Addressing the oft made assertion (or at least insinuation) "that conservative American Protestants are roughly equivalent with conservative Muslims", Razib tapped the World Values Survey to compare the positions of conservative Protestants in the US with those of Muslims in predominately Islamic countries on some representative social issues. He presents a table that shows all scaled response distributions for each group on each question.

Below, I essentially replicate his results with the purpose of trying to reproduce them in a way that is a little easier for mere mortals like myself to digest. Instead of showing the entire distribution, I use mean values for each group. Razib concludes:

The general qualitative result: American conservative Protestants are in the main to the center or social liberal end of Muslim public opinion. They are not comparable at all to Muslim reactionaries.

As the averages make clearer, conservative Protestants (defined here as those who expressed a preference for the Republican party) are in fact more liberal on each of these issues than Muslims in any of the countries included are. Keep in mind, the comparison here is between conservative Protestants and all Muslims, not just between evangelicals and reactionary Islamists. The latter comparison would show conservative Protestants to be even more liberal relative to Muslims than this comparison does.

Finally, using standard deviation values reported in the WVS, each of the tables also shows where the average conservative Protestant fits into the Muslim distribution*. So, on the question of the justifiability of homosexuality, the average conservative American Protestant is at 71st percentile of the Muslim population. Because the wife-beating question is inverted, the figure shows where the average conservative Protestant falls on the another-black-eye-to-explain-to-the-neighbors-is-unjustifiable distribution. The higher the value (on a 1-10 scale), the more justifiable the act or behavior in question is viewed as being:

Homosexuality	Score
Conservative Protestants (US)	3.2
Malaysia (Muslim)	2.9
Jordan (Muslim)	1.0
Iran (Shia)	1.5
Turkey (Muslim)	1.7
Conservative Protestant percentile among Muslims	71st percentile

Abortion	Score
Conservative Protestants (US)	3.5
Malaysia (Muslim)	2.8
Iraq (Shia)	1.2
Iraq (Sunni)	2.4
Jordan (Muslim)	1.2
Iran (Shia)	2.3
Morocco (Muslim)	1.8
Turkey (Muslim)	2.3
Conservative Protestant percentile among Muslims	73rd percentile

Man to beat his wife	Score
Conservative Protestants (US)	1.3
Malaysia (Muslim)	3.1
Jordan (Muslim)	1.5
Iran (Shia)	1.8
Morocco (Muslim)	2.3
Turkey (Muslim)	1.5
Conservative Protestant percentile among Muslims	63rd percentile

WVS variables used: V185, V231(Republican), V202, V204, V208

* Arrived at by simply averaging the averages of each of the Muslim groups on each question. This skews Muslim opinion towards that of the Middle East and North Africa and away from South Asia, which, in terms of sheer numbers, is unrepresentative of the world's roughly 1.6 billion Muslims. Indonesia, Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh all have far more Muslims than any of the MENA countries do, but with the exception of Pakistan, when Americans think of Muslims, they primarily have Arabs and Persians in mind.