my mistake should have included radical islam
That, and a few other faiths. Unfortunately I can’t remember any right now but I am relatively sure that Christianity and Islam are not the only religions with idiots who persecute others “in the name of God”.
I guess we could include the various maniacal meso-American heart ripping/human sacrificing cultures so aptly portrayed in “Apocalypto”. They were pretty brutal. And of course there were the pre-Islamic pagan Arabs who killed anyone who didn’t follow their heathen idols.
If anyone wonders why the Koran has plenty of violence in it, it’s because that the original pagans tried to kill Muslims before they even had a chance to establish the faith (insert stupid snarky comments of approval here). If Christianity were to develop in such an excessively hostile period, one can expect the same type of attributes too.