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Islam is making inroads in all the PC Meccas ,as it were. I live in Montgomery County Maryland, which is in the Madison Wisc, Berkeley, Boston class when it comes to political correctness. Last night my son was watching a local program called Homework Hotline, which as the name implies answers student who are having trouble solving a given problem. Well a young man called in last night named Hannibal and this young Carthaginian was upset about the Crusades and was angry that the Crusades were meant to forcibly convert the Moslem's of the Middle East. That was red meat for the teacher and she launched into a long diatribe affirming Hannibal's thesis and that Christianity's real goal has been and always will be to destroy cultures that don't agree with them. I've heard enough about Londonistan, we here in the US are being slowly prepared for Islams gaining a foothold and more, it's only a matter of time..

An excellent book on the comparison of Christians and Muslims is "The Great Divide" by Alvin J. Schmidt.

It gives the history of the Crusades and it also gives us a look into the world at the time that Jesus was born. Even if one does not believe in Christianity, this book puts in perspective how unique Jesus was up until that time. No one else had ever taught his message before. The great philosophers of the Greek civilzation did not have any of the vision that Jesus had. Studying the role of Jesus in history adds a different perspective on the role Jesus played in shaping Western civilization. It's amazing that we can not discuss one of the great historical figures, let alone the history of Christianity in out classrooms today.