Regardless of whether you judge Islam by its text or practice, you will get the impression it is a highly violent religion. Look at my sig again. How many Christian terrorist attacks have their been in the world for the last century, much less since 9/11? And I think the fact that Christianity spread by non violent preaching and Islam by war (
http://www.answering-islam.de/Main/T...the_sword.html) and the fact that it's "prophet" had such a bad life by virtually anyone's standards (
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Pages/WWMD.htm) shows that the "tree" of Islam is much more corrupt. Taking the approach of "by their fruits you shall know them", what do we have? Christianity, peaceful evangelizing, a self defensive war with a few massacres almost immediately condemned by the religious authorities of the day, an Inquisition killing about 2000 people (
http://www.tektonics.org/qt/spaninq.html), some attempted terrorist attacks by a few people with virtually zero Biblical support, mainstream Christian support, and little attempts to justify their acts using scripture, a few terrorist groups with similar conditions, and citation of verses of specific commands by God for tribe X to kill tribe Y, and tribe Y was typically expansionistic and brutal. Islam, thousands upon thousands of terrorist attacks in barely half a decade, numerous major ones, one of which involved largely the murder of children, the continuing attitude from Islam of "We're sorry, we are a religion of peace blah blah blah.. BUT THE WEST DID WORSE!", Qur'anic citation for virtually every terrorist act, and that's just over 6 years.