Is Islam more or less violent in Its teachings then other religions?

[abaris]

For sure for sure it has been Christianity with the big win.  I mean, the nazis were Christian.  So were the Crusaders.  So was every European empire.  Yeah, the muslims also made a pretty good run of it, but numerically there's no comparison.

It's as unfair to call the Nazis a christian movement as it is to blame Stalin's atrocities on atheism.

As I said, every major religion has the potential for vile acts when it comes to radicals. It's rather interesting to look at Islam, since all through the Middle Ages the islamic cultures were far more advanced and in many instances far more tolerant towards other religious believes than christian Europe. We, in the Western world, learned a lot from them.

In my eyes it's much more of a geopolitical problem than a religious one that they fell back, since most of them are third world countries drawn into endless conflicts. A look on the map also shows that colonialism played a major role in creating that situation. These aren't countries that have grown in a natural way, they were drawn up in some office in London or Paris without giving any regards to the different ehtnicities living there and there inherent conflicts. Iraq is one of the best examples, since it's an entirely artificial construct made up of three former Osmanic provinces.

The defining factor of why there's islamic terrorism and less christian terrorism isn't because their radicals weren't equally driven by their vile impulses they have drawn from their respective holy books. It's mostly first world problems against Third world problems. It's functioning states against failed states. But the layer is thin and it breaks occasionally. Brejvik is only the most prominent example of the last years. If words could kill, the fields of the West would be as littered with bodies as those of the east. And it's not just empty talk when some pastor feels the need to call for stoning gays. They feel their lord is demanding action just in the same way the islamic terrorists feel it.