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The difference is that Christianity has been through a reformation and matured over 2000 years. And Islamic New Testament is required

Ding! We have a winner! Condemning Islam isn't good when your own religion has some pretty dark points to it, just realize that they're behind the times. Facing the might of the United States may just be what they needed to make them grow up quickly.

Criticism of conquest by Christianity is something to be addressed. The problem came about when Emperor Constantine hijacked Christianity and turned it into a State Church; Roman Catholicism. During the years when governments were wed to the Roman Catholic church, despots were able to use the latin liturgy to keep the masses ignorant and enoble themselves in a shroud of divinity.

This is precisely the method used by Mohammad when he plagiarized the religions of his day in order to lend himself the aura of divinity that gave him absolute power to plunder his world for booty.

Christianity has long since renounced this connection between rulers and the church.

http://www.prophetofdoom.net/

Ding! We have a winner! Condemning Islam isn't good when your own religion has some pretty dark points to it, just realize that they're behind the times. Facing the might of the United States may just be what they needed to make them grow up quickly.

Christianity's founder submitted himself to sacrifice, and in fact corrected the misguided beliefs of his disciples that he would be a warrior king. Christianity was as a result founded as a religion of peace, obedience to civil authority, acceptance of one's earthly station, and (at times) martyrdom. There is no doubt that it has seen its dark periods;and yet it is not maturation that brings it out of those periods; rather, it is a return to its roots, its fundamentals.

Given the actions of Mohammed and his disciples in the 7th century, the last thing we want is for Islam to maintain its roots. What really needs to happen is for its strictest adherents to be defeated, decisively, leaving behind only those who would liberalize it out of relevance (much like is happening to Christianity, sadly, in much of Europe and North America.)