ThepoliticallyIncurred Guide to Islam (and the Crusadenor to direct the collective affairs of human beings according to their own
misconceived doctrines." if they do, "the believers would be under an
obligation to do their utmost to dislodge them from political power andto
make them live in subservience to the Islamic way of life."'
Do their utmost, even to the point of strapping on bombs and
blowlowing them sel ves up in crow ded buse s or rest aura nts, or
hija ckin g airp lane sand flying them into office towers.PC Myth: Christianity and Islamspreadin
pretty much the same way
And it's certainly true that no group, religious or unreligions,has monopoly on
either misdeeds or virtue—but it doesn't follow that allThis is one of many moral
equival ence argume ntsmade today—they'reso common that it seems as if some
people cannot bring themselves toackn owle dge that there coul d be anyt hing
nega tive abou t Isla m unles s they take pain s to poi nt out that the same
nega tive thin g exis ts Chris-
religi ous traditi ons are equal either in the nature of their teachi ngs or inthe
capacity of those teachings toinspire violence,
For nearly the first three centuries of its existence, Christianity was outlawed
and subject to sporadic persecution by Roman authorities. Not only was the
religionnotspread by violence, but the lists of Christian martyrs are filled with
the names of people subjected to violencebecausethey became Christi ans.In
contras t, by the time of Muhammad 's deaththe Muslims faced no organized or
sustaine d opposition, and yet continued to take up the sword for their faith.
In the ear ly day s of Chr ist ian ity , the Chu rch sen t mis sio nar ies to preach
to non-believers and convince them of the truth of their faith. The ancient
Christian nations of Europe all remember the Christian missionarias who brought
the faith to them Saint Patrick in Ire/and; Saint Augustine of Canterbury in
England; Saints Cyril and Methodius in Central and Eastern Europe; and others
like them.They were priests and monks—no