You missed the Crusades.
Not comparing Islam to Christianity, but it wasn’t nearly as peaceful as you present it.
Well...if somebody wanted to start a “Reformation” in islam, they would have to nail a list of “issues” to a mosque door.
The size of the nail long enough to secure the reams of paper necessary, the sheer weight of the tome, and the size of the hammer necessary to drive the nail makes this an insurmountable task!/s
Well, there was a lot of violence in the “wars of religion” of the 16th century, most of it from of attacks on Catholics by the various Protestant groups, since Protestantism split up fairly early in its career. These groups included the Huguenots, the Anglicans and the Calvinists (who mostly attacked other Protestants). This of course was followed up by attacks from Catholics on Protestants. In many cases, including the inter-Protestant attacks, there was a secular political element on either side.
The main difference between Christianity and Islam is simply that this is never justified in Christian scriptures, whereas Islamic writings are one long violent screed. Oh - and the fact that Christianity is true and Islam is not...
Mohammed went from being a businessman, to becoming a war lord once he started his religion.
That is why Islam will always mean death. murder, and conquest, and can never mean anything else, true believers will always rediscover the true faith of Mohammedanism.
I was tweeting some girl about the fact that Hitler was an atheist that used religion opportunistically - he never believed it.
She just couldn’t accept all the evidence so I let it drop.
Christianity has always attempted to define ‘free will’, and in doing so, has affirmed that it is an individual choice.
Mohammedanism’s only choice is to convert or die. The individual, and the acknowledgement of free will, are both things that are suppressed, oppressed, and destroyed, at the interpretation of the so-called omniscient cleric.
Thus, the spirit of The Reformation flowed from the individual, and in thus, is completely opposite to anything Mohammedan.
The leader in Egypt, President al-Sisi, has asked for revolution in islam.
He is right, and I suspect that he echoes the views of leaders in many majority muslim countries, like Indonesia, etc.
I do believe these countries should vow to punish severely any and all terrorist acts, through the families and communities of the bad-actors.
France would be a good start. Round up about 300 of the radical islamics, and put them in prison for life, for inciting violence and terrorism.
Islam is unlike any other religion on the planet.
In fact — it isn’t so much a religion as it is a repressive social system.
I’ve heard even the “Catholics” on Fox talk about how Islam “needs to have a reformation like Christianity,” as though Christianity was violent until Luther, and non-violent afterwards.
What anti-historical bilge!
The. anti-Christian bigots always equate Muslim butchery with the Crusades. Look up the history of the Muslim conquer, Saladin, who wiped out thousands of Europeans in merciless slaughter to add to Muslim territory. Had the Christians not fought back, they would have had to convert to Islam in order to survive.
History is repeating itself and our abject ignorance of it is an enormous defect in our culture.
The last “Christian” war IIRC was in Northern Ireland. There have been sporatic nutjobs like Jim Jones killing his “flock.” Then, a couple of hundred years ago there was Salem.
But, no continuous and ongoing murders or mayhem have taken place by Christians in the name of God or conversions to Christianity has been happening for 2,000 years unlike those since the time of Mohammed.
In the Haddiths, Mohammad clearly says anyone attempting to change to Given Word of allah must be killed.
Mohammad also clearly said that on the Second Given Half of the qu’ran is valid. Since all the peaceful suras (which, incidentally, are plagiarized from the Bible and the Torah) are in the First Given Half which has been invalid since the time of Mohammad, what would an Islamic Reformation look like presuming the reformers were not killed, en mass? Only kill every other non-believer?
Further, to attempt such a change would be like a Christian attempting to gainsay Christ.
Islam cannot be reformed.
It had nothing to do with pointing to the past but for the common man being able to read the Bible for himself and figure out that what the church was saying and where it was leading was not really what the Bible was saying.
Islam on the other hand will never have that option as it says what it says and is being taught truthfully in the mosques unlike Christianity before the reformation.
Absolutely not true.
That said; whatever it takes.
It's not going to happen, and Westerners who think it will — or could — are sticking their heads in the sand in hopes of delaying the inevitable world war.