[fatidic]

You are totally WRONG about God in the First Covenant (Old Testament) being more blood-thirsty than Allah. You have failed to note the very limited groups identified for extermination and the very specific reasons God gave for such a drastic action and the very limited extent of the geography of the jewish conquest. Get a Bible and read it and quite spouting ignorant hearsay.

[Restorer]

I've read the Bible.

A number of times.

I am merely pointing out the hypocrisy (or, more likely, ignorance) of those who use certain (Koranic) texts to proclaim the inherently violent nature of Islam, while generally ignoring the arguably more violent nature of certain (Biblical) texts.

My problem is not that the Koran says that it is righteous to exterminate the enemies of God. The OT says pretty much the same thing.

My problem is that (some) Muslims are attempting to implement these texts today. I know of no Jewish or Christian groups attempting to do the same. If Muslims took the literal meaning of their sacred texts with the same grain of salt that Jews and Christians do, we would not have a problem.

IOW, the problem is not the wording of the text, it's the interpretation and application.