I do not recall Jesus of Nazareth nor Guatama Buddha teaching that it was OK to kill in the name of God, or to defend other co-religionists, or to advance the cause of The Faith; embedding such commentaries directly within their sacred writings; or to lie to Unbelievers; or to practice polygamy, or a hundred other most UN-godly teachings.
Yet they do. Actions speak louder then words.
Oh, hell, I'm the first one to admit that Christianity has probably been responsible for more deaths than Islam and the rest combined, when you add 'em all up.
But the teachings of Jesus and the New Testament are designed to supersede the teachings found in the Old, with the Old tagging along as cultural-historical background piece and as a catch-all for dealing with anything not covered in the New.
The New is supposed to override the Old every time.
Jesus taught 'Love Thy Neighbor' and 'Turn the Other Cheek'.
By comparison, Muhammed's hands are soaked in the blood of thousands.
When a Christian kills, he does so in DIRECT CONTRAVENTION to the teachings of his Founder.
When a Muslim kills, he oftentimes does so IN OBEDIENCE to the teachings of his Founder.
Big frigging difference.
Also, when Christianity gets too far out of whack, the core teachings of its Founder act as a Reset Button, to begin to stop the insanity, and to bring the Faithful back into the Center.
Given that a Muslim is oftentimes obeying his Founder when he kills, there IS no such Reset Button within Islam.
The only reason why Islam has not been killing in large numbers is because they have been under the European colonial and imperial heel for some centuries and unable to behave the way they used to behave.
With the colonial and imperial masters now gone and having skeddadled back to Europe, and with Islam slowly re-awakening and re-arming and re-politicizing, that Time of Killing is coming again... we are seeing the beginnings of such a religiously-motivated culture clash.
Crusade and Jihad, Round 2, is not an impossibility, within the next 100 years, in this modern-day age of instantaneous communications and high-speed mass travel.
God forbid.
But we in The West DO need to keep history in mind, and the intentions and motivations of our potential Adversaries in mind, as some of them attempt to settle-in amongst us.
Islam-at-large has been responsible for a great deal of political unrest and terrorism within the past few decades, with no end in sight.
We would be fools to deny such a modern legacy or to ignore it or pretend it doesn't exist.
Because it does.
"...Islam, in western cultures is of western cultures..."
I withdraw my 'rubbish' observation.
And replace it with 'horseshit'.
You're not fooling anybody with
THAT observation.