[layman]

Ku Klux Klan ... set up a well-endowed network of colleges and schools throughout Christendom, peddling their peculiar brand of Christianity.

The difference is that Americans would actively oppose the KKK rather than sit around discussing whether or not they represent true Christianity.

[richardtavor]

"Princeton historian Bernard Lewis, a highly respected scholar of Islam, has likened Saudi Arabia’s exportation of modern-day Wahhabism to a hypothetical situation Americans can more easily understand. "Imagine that the Ku Klux Klan gets total control of the state of Texas," Lewis told Princeton’s Alumni Weekly. "And the Ku Klux Klan has at its disposal all the oil rigs in Texas."

What an ass!