The Al Qaeda Misconception

I agree with your analysis and understood same to be representative of the comparative nature of the two religions at infancy, not as an apologetic stance for fanaticism, where you proffer fundamentalist Islam as being the new religion.

Christianity for the first 300 years is represented to us having been built on the backs of martyrs where the under 100 year young Islamist extremists of today represent themselves as martyrs for their religious cause, and while many will object to your analysis on the basis that they see Al Qaeda’s version of martyrdom as being self inflicted as opposed to early Christianity’s being induced, what they miss are the atrocities such as the wholesale slaughter of Muslims in Bosnia and the fact that Christians 1900 years ago had no base and no large numbers with which to either defend itself or attack others.

Radical Islam’s religious war is today no different in philosophical nature to that of the Christians once they gained in power and numbers.