Comparison of Islam with Christianity is blunted by taking "Christianity" to be the Church of Rome. Comparing the body count from the 10 centuries of war of conquest and subjugation through the Middle East, North Africa, India and Dutch East Indies, inspired by the genocidal desert bandit Mohammed, with the 17 century war of subjugation against Christianity waged by the Church of Rome, set up by the tyrant Constantine as an auxiliary to his and his successors' brutal rule and endless military aggression. The murderous history of the Church of Rome shows up in Foxe's Book of Martyrs and is described in detail by the 19th Century Sevvo Ellen White (herself a kook but a meticulous chronicler) in her book "The Great Conspiracy".

There is a very satisfying read and re-read in the account of the demolition by Napoleon's soldiers of the castle housing the Spanish Inquisition near Madrid. It's at www.scionofzion.com/spanish_inquisition.htm

As an aside, I wrote the following contribution this morning to the Guardian's comments section

"Islamophobia is like Naziphobia – rejection of an ideology that calls for conquest and subjugation."

Unsurprisingly it got kerzonked by their dhimmi moderators.

Christianity is the Catholic Church, the rest, the Diminishing Christians, are breakaways and in their diversity compound their folly.

I hope you have been partaking in strong liquor.
The Catholic Church is Christianity. That is a filthy statement for anyone to make.
That puts you in the same basket as Islam, your mind is closed.
Your religion is your private crutch. It has no need for disclosure to anyone.
I have no religion so I am not naming any religion in my mane.

Emperor Julian

Christianity does indeed have a bloodthirsty, brutal history. Our ancestors
suffered, the burnings at the stake of the perceived infidels,sorry the heretics,
Both words meaning, of the devil, or belonging to the devil. Plus there was Bloody Mary
the queen of England who beheaded people who wouldn't convert to the Christian religion.

And don't forget the poor women selected as witches. They were given a chance to prove they werent witches by being submerged in the village pond for a long period of time. If they drowned, they were proclaimed innocent, if they didn't drown, they were burnt at the stake.

What a marvellous way to silence all those who dared to question.

Women and men,had to fight the Catholic Church for contraception, to be freely
available.
I think a lot of people in Australia are horrified at the prospect, of having to go
through this, again, under a Muslim group like Isis.
It took a long time to free ourselves from the power of persecution the early Christian
Priests had over people, the power to torture and kill and interfering in family life with their opposition to contraception.
The Christian religion today, since the separation of church and state,is a much more
Humane, caring institution.

Please don't let our society have to live through this again, with another
group of men like Isis, seeking to control people's lives even down to what happens
in the privacy of people's bedrooms by dictating contraception

Hi Cherful,

Yes, and Muslim women are having to go through much of what you condemn even in our time. I hope it doesn't take them as long to liberate themselves from pig-ignorance and gross inequality.

But it probably will :( So where will western feminists stand ? Will they go along with the Stockholm-syndrome Muslim women who have been persuaded to spout rubbish ? Sometimes - my god, this sounds arrogant - I don't think western feminists understand feminism.

The Muslim world has a very long way to go in order to reform itself, and bring it up into the 21st (or 22nd) century. An it seems that that vital process won't be helped along by the regressive 'Left', so it might take even longer than it needs to.

Cheers,

Joe

doog,

"I have no religion so I am not naming any religion in my mane"

I hope that that is a typo an' that you ain't a horse, or, perchance, an ass.