Is Islam the religion of peace.....pffft....NO

[abaris]

In fairness, xtians rarely do anything that horrible.

As I always keep saying, give evangelicals absolute government powers and you have a christian Iran with biblical laws. Their lawmakers make no secret about their intentions, if they had their way.

Right now, they have no reason to organise into violent bands, since where they are the most radical, their life is also pretty cozy. But you can see it in Africa, where they impose life sentences for being gay and capital punishment was seriously discussed. You can also see it in Russia, where the Orthodox church is the second most powerful force after Putin.

And it's also only 70 years ago, that Franciscan monks commanded concentration camps in fascist Croatia, where thousands were being killed for being Greek Orthodox or jewish. It says someting, that a Nazi military court convicted him for being inhumane.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miroslav_Filipovi%C4%87

But in all fairness, today the only christian denominations with the potential for violence, as they sometimes demonstrate, are the evengelicals. Mainstream catholicism and protestanism is pretty tame these days.