people who hate muslims: what makes islam any different from christianity?

Question

(keep in mind christianity's long history of violence towards non-believers...)

Answer 1

look my friend
In our religion, we must respect all the other religions because they are all from GOD. And by the way we MUSLIMS must believe in all the PROPHITS like (Jesus) peace be upon him, (Moses) peace be upon him, (Ishaq) peace be upon him, (Jacob) peace be upon him, (Noah) peace be upon him.. because they are all Messengers from GOD

You will never find any MUSLIM disrespect any of the PROPHITS. Because we are taught in the Quran to believe in all the PROPHITS including (Jesus) piece be upon him.

Read about ISLAM from the right channels, get the knowledge of it instead of talking about things you are not aware of.

Do not judge ISLAM from some Muslim people, not all MUSLIMS give good example of what ISLAM is really about. We cannot judge Christianity from CHRISTIAN people because they are hardly any one practices the real CHRISTIANITY these days.

Yes Islam does believe in Jihad. But the Christians believed in the Crusades
If you want to compare the amount of people killed do to Jihad and the amount of people killed do to indoctrinating people with Catholicism

Answer 2

Alright, first let me point out the differences between Islam and Christianity by going back to the roots.
Abraham had two sons, Isaac and Ishmael. From Isaac, the Christian religion was born, and from Ishmael, Islam. Islam fanaticals are, in fact, killing Christians for Allah.They do so because they are told this (By their leaders of course): "O great and good followers of Allah! Why are you so hungry, and have homes of mud and dirt? Because the Christians are taking our blessings from us! We live in the land promised us by Allah, yet the Christians take our food and shelter for themselves!!!(Note that this DOESN'T apply to all muslims, just [most] of the current ones in Iraq.) We must kill the Christians and take back what is ours!"
Which brings me to question 1: If the Muslims are blessed by Allah, how are the Christians taking their blessings?

Now, Isaac and Ishmael followed the same God, the God of their father. Isaac and Ishmael ALSO weren't constantly trying to kill each other.

Question 2: Why are the Muslims trying to kill the Christians, if their ancestors didn't?

And, as for the bit about Christian violence, I'm assuming you're refferring to the Crusades? The Crusades started when the Byzantine Empire was attacked by the Muslim territories and needed to repel them and re-take their land. So the Muslims started it, and with God on our side, sure as hell we can take back what's ours.

Answer 3

there is a lot of difference in Muslims and Christians I would say about 300 years, sure the Christians had their Inquisition so did the Muslims when Mohammed had his rampage , and his cohorts are still trying to do the same in various countries, while the Christians have settled down for about 300 years , in a world with the technology as we have today why are the Muslims still in the bronze age, they will be eliminated by their own sword, but meanwhile they will cause the world a lot of headaches,

Answer 4

Yes, I agree that some sects of Christianity have been very violent towards non believers, just as Islam has shared the same path.

However today we Christians (for the most part) Thur education no longer blindly follow but lead in our own hearts.

Whereas the uneducated and brainwashed of Islam continue to chop off heads and subjugate women.

You don't see Christian men forcing women into servitude and burkas. In Islam, if a man rapes a women, it is assumed that it is the woman fault for provoking the man. She may be executed for his crime and sin. He will receive a mild punishment.

Answer 5

Christians have evolved in the last few centuries and no longer stone people to death. They are also not the ones going around the entire world placing suicide bombers in among civilians. As an agnostic I feel much freer living among Christians than I would living among Muslims in a Muslim nation. Also the Koran has an entire chapter dedicated to "The Spoils of War". The Bible does not.

http://www.submission.org/suras/sura8.htm

Answer 6

Aside from the Spanish Inquisition, Christians haven't tried to convert the world to Christianity via torture, beheadings, etc. Muslims are in the midst of that sort of insane rapture even as we speak. Then there's the differences in holy books and requirements to please the God of each religion, and the fact that Christians can take an insult with far more grace Muslims can.

Answer 7

Sadly Catholics want to speak up over other Christian groups... The European conquest of the World was because of Geographic luck... look it up. They obtained the tools for civilization first... sadly. Then Whitey got greedy and Catholic. CATHOLICS ARE CHRISTIANS TOO! THey just have a strange take on things... ironically, extremely Catholic nations like Spain and Portugal did not take part in the Crusades which violated everything Jesus believed and stood for! Catholics put huge enthasis on material things like gold, and... cities and not on the people who are actually more valuable to GOD... think about that... Muslims and Christians should of never took the paths they did.

Islam started as a small cult... like Christianity.
THe major difference between the two religions are that Christians believe that one has to have a relationship with Jesus.
Islam holds Jesus as a wise teacher, but he is not a savior to Muslims.
Earlier I mentioned the Spanish and Portuguese not playing a major factor in the Crusades... THe Iberians (Spanish and Portuguese) were occupied by the Islamic Moors who had freedom of religion!!! THe MUSLIMS, CHRISTIANS, AND JEWS got along. The Reconquista began two hundred years after the Crusades after the Spanish became a Catholic stronghold... Portugal actually fought the Moors too because of 'persuasion' from England and France (Franks) and Germany (Visogoths) ANd even the Bysitines. After this Christians and MUslims never had the same relationship... I love MUslims. they are not TO BE HATED, FEARED, OR DISCRIMINATED. Science and the age of 'reasoning' didn't help much either... with Darwin's theory of Evolution racism became justified by 'science' and since most Europeans didn't 'educated' their 'savages' they assumed the 'savages' were inferior...

Islam is a very different religion than Christianity... Look them both up in the dictionary, it's a book. Wikipedia, but be careful... and ask a Muslim and a Christian... try it you'll like it. If you're MUslim... God Bless You... Allah is fancy word for God... So don't think of them as weird, that's not right.

MUSLIM EXTREMISTS are THE SAME AS CHRISTIAN EXTREMISTS and sadly our media in America depicts Muslim extremists as the ones in charge of ISLAM! THis IS NOT RIGHT! CHristianity HAS changed a lot over the last three centuries and is finally starting to open up it's doors to others... which the bible asked them to.

Other people may say that the Quoran has entire chapters dedicated to war... so does the Bible... where God ordered the Jews to conquer their neighbors because they DISOBEYED HIM AND ran away from their PROMISE LAND.

THe BIBLE AND THE QUORAN NEED TO TAKEN TO THEIR HISTORICAL CONTEXT TO GAIN FURTHER UNDERSTANDING... THe Quoran says nothing about killing others for ISlam, but It does have one verse that is taken out of proportion like the Bible!

Reading anything requires one to reader things before and after... after the Bible's verses were numbered discrimination of Woman and Non- believers became numerous ... okay.

Answer 8

Radical extreemists in either group is a danger. I don't think hate is a correct term. Justified concern. I mean how do you tell a radical from a non-radical ,just from looking at them? I'm not risking my neck in an insecure situation, waiting for the answer, if they (the non-radicals) aren't willing to take a stand to stop it . I mean they're a member and live in fear, and somethings wrong with me when I know they are out to get me and react normally?

Answer 9

I don't suppose it has it occurred to you that recent actions are more important than centuries old mistakes. I would suggest to you that people can learn from their mistakes. Rome learned from its treatment of the Christians, Christians learned from the Inquisition and the Crusade, America learned from its treatment of the Indians and Blacks, etc. What HAS NOT happened over all these centuries is that radical Muslims have not learned that their crimes are not part of their religion and they continue to bring down attrocities on their own people as well as other ideologies.

THAT MY FRIEND IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RADICAL ISLAM AND CHRISTIANS.

Answer 10

I don't like Christianity's history either but at least they're not still killing people who don't agree with them. You can't say that about Muslims. All they know is killing and it's stupid on a whole lot of levels.

Answer 11

History is bloody, for everyone. You have no cleaner history, guaranteed.

Christianity abhors suicide. Abhors murder. Abhors genocide.

So you tell me.

Oh, and I do not hate Muslims. I just think the radical extremists should be stopped.