Yes, Muslims need to reclaim their religion from the extremists who have hijacked it. But so do Christians.
When Jerry Falwell flies an airplane full of innocents into a building and kills thousands, I’ll take the writer’s point seriously.
Calling people “intolerant names” is not comparable to killing people by the thousands over religious differences. If it was, Jay Leno would be Hitler.
Yes, there were Crusades in the Middle Ages, and they were cruel. However, the lands the Crusaders invaded had formerly been nations where the Christian faith flourished, towns with churches to which Paul wrote his epistles. During the Muslim wars of conquest, the practice of the Christian religion was eliminated over most of the Middle East and North Africa, where it had previously flourished. Christian believers were put to the sword, or at best relegated to second class status. As far as the Crusades go, I recall the current Pope offering apologies for their abuses to the Muslim world. I have yet to see Muslim clerics offer similar apologies for the mass murder they committed in Constantinople, Fez, or hundreds of other locations over the centuries, even to the present day in Sudan.
Please show me where Christians are slamming airplanes into landmark buildings, killing innocent civilians in shopping centers, or attacking U.S. naval warships. Timothy McVeigh was an atheist, who refused the last rites of the Catholic Church. The Nazis were explicitly pagan in their beliefs. Having fair skin, light eyes and hair makes no one a Christian, just a person of Northern European origin. The IRA (who are mostly Marxist) and Protestant extremist groups in Ulster (essentially blood and soil-type fascists) have little regard for and minimal knowledge of Scripture. The troubles in Northern Ireland are tribal in essence, and not sectarian.
I am not saying that Al-Qaida and other Muslim terrorist groups are not overly zealous. Yet I do not hear the so-called Muslim mainstream denouncing their activities. You cited Randall Terry, a Christian anti-abortion activist who advocates theonomy, i.e., rule by Biblical law. He belongs to a movement called Christian Reconstructionism. This movement is roundly condemned by most evangelical Christians, even by conservative Calvinist theologians with whom the Reconstructionists agree with on most theological points.
You cited a passage in Deuteronomy that called for the execution of women who were not virgins at the time of marriage. The general understanding of Christian theologians on the civil law of ancient Israel, as outlined in the first five books, was that ii was meant for a specific nation (Israel) and for a specific time frame, which ended with the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD. The reason for this understanding is based on the words of Jesus Christ that His kingdom is not of this world and the recognition of distinctions between Israel and the Church. The Christian faith has been spread mainly by missionaries, from the days of Paul and Timothy to the present. This method is used because that was the sole method commanded by Jesus and practiced by His disciples. Faithful followers of Islam are commanded to spread the teachings of the Koran by the sword, if necessary.
Falwell, Robertson, and Graham spoke the truth on the militant nature of Islam. There are many millions of Muslims who live peaceful and constructive lives who harm no one and who are good citizens of this country and other nations. I would argue that these Muslims ignore those passages of the Koran and focus on its ethical and moral teachings instead. They should be commended for their decision. However, we hear little, if any, condemnation of Muslim terror from this silent majority or their religious leaders. Compare this to the denunciations evangelical Christians made of abortion clinic bombers or murderers of abortion providers.
You have not made a case for equivalency between conservative Christians and militant Islam.