[muawiyah]

BTW, just a side issue, but when I see a crime committed by a Catholic (who is identified as a Catholic for whatever reason), as a Protestant I generally do not internalize that as being some sort of black mark against Christianity.

Doesn't mean I don't think Catholics are Christians ~ it's just that I don't think Catholicism preaches crime, nor does Protestantism.

[rlmorel]

And vice versa. Because we are a secularist, relatively tolerant society we generally do not affix a religious component to most crimes except in the rarest of occasions such as the lunatic who blew up the abortion clinics.

There is a body of people out there who think that Christianity and Islam worship the same God, they just have different customs and use different names...

It is rubbish. Mohammed is not Jesus and vice versa.

But neither then are Christians sawing the heads off of innocent people who scream in terror until their airway is severed, all the while intoning how wonderful and great Jesus is and the Christian God is. And there wouldn't be a big market on the street for DVD's and Videos of the activity.