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killing and pillaging as an acceptable means of transmission of his "revelation." Plus his offspring and disciples commenced killing each other right away.

The same could be said of Christianity.

That's not only untrue, its patently offensive. The early Christians were PERSECUTED, they did not PERSECUTE.The message was always the message of love in general, and the love of God through His Son Jesus Christ in particular. There is no love in islam, who see God as a great impersonal monster in the sky who is just itching to press the smite button on you. Christianity took over Rome with this message. The fact that the imperialistic, militaristic SPQR didn't immediately renounce all of its violent ways means nothing because eventually they did. In fact, I think you would be hard pressed to find any instance of Christianity being spread at the point of a sword until AFTER the muslimes took over half the world and the Christian culture had its back to the wall. And the crusades were the Christians taking the initiative in the death struggle with islam (that we're still engaged in), rather than the raping, pillaging adventures that they are portrayed as by those that hate Christianity and would destroy it if they could.