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Originally Posted by The Bear
Around 700 AD Europe was certainly no paradise, but the continuing tribal warfare in the birthplace of Islam was significantly worse. What’s more Europe was Christian and was controlled (not too strong a word) by the Roman Catholic church to a considerable extent.
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Actually Europe had more warfare and the Roman Catholic church did not really gain strong control until after 800AD which it then began to lose by the 13th century. The Pope wasn't even the sole head of Western xtianity at the time, he had to compete with the emperor.
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I, and all those who have looked seriously and dispassionately this subject see Christianity as the antithesis of Islam.
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Well I don't. Xtianity is much the same.
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As for violence, the whole ethos of Islam is based on violence to the transgressor.
It’s not the culture that makes Islam violent, it’s the other way around. It’s Islam that makes for a violent culture, especially towards non Muslims.
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Xtianity and Judaism are just the same, in fact Judaism and Jewish xtianity arose from the same semitic culture as Islam did. They are much the same.