They're all nasty if ruled as a theocracy, but Islam is off the charts with its baseness and how it elevates a pedophile to the status of prophet and considers him the "perfect man", a man who pioneered the concept of thighing.

See thighing here:

because they kill for fun and are the hittler religion also they burn people.on the other hand christans dont kill

The most violent of religions in our history is humanism. In it's lifting up of man as being his own God, this sick religion has supported murdering tens of millions of unborn Babies, simply to eliminate a so called burden created by their own choices.

Attached is a pretty interesting article.

Honestly, I never gave the crusades that much thought. I accepted the Crusades were a Christian/Catholic dark time in history that I didn't know much about.

But it occurred to me.

Maybe it was greed, or a display of self righteous bullying by the west, Or maybe

something more.

What started this intense western focus and involvement to begin with that signaled out these Muslim occupied areas during the crusades?

There's always 2 sides to a story.

1 side one of this story of Crusades is ignored.

Not to excuse the outcome or behavior of the west, but, still note worthy.

The Christians elevation to the level of brutal force as described during history of the crusades was not standard behavior, and not characteristic of Christian conversions, with possibly some indepenent extremist, but still, overall, not "characteristic" of Christian conversions.

In contrast, Islam growth is characteristic of brutal force, demanding conversions, and threatening western civilization, their way of life, along with their religious beliefs.

Is it possible, at least initially and for some part of the crusades, that western aggression began as a defensive reaction in order to combat the threat of brutal violent takeover in neighboring countries, with threats growing against western religious beliefs?

And, is this is even more applicable in todays current climate when comparing the radicalization of Islam vs the radicalization of other religions

Two wrongs don't make a right;

But also,

What came 1st? The chicken or the egg?

you forgot to mention atheism ...............

.

What about the Atheist ............ When Christopher Hitchens observes that .. “Religion is violent .. irrational .. intolerant .. allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry .. invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry .. contemptuous of women and coercive toward children" .. he is both right and wrong . . . . . Hitchens is right because humankind is sinful and selfish .. Indeed .. I believe it was G.K. Chesterton who said that the one Christian doctrine that was demonstrably provable .. even to casual observers .. was the sinfulness and depravity of man .. Thus .. human expressions of the religious impulse will inevitably produce some religious practices and beliefs that would fit Hitchens’ rather grim description . . . . Human history is replete with such flawed expressions of religious faith

.

However . . this would be true of all secular philosophies and ideologies as well .. Three of the most heinous and barbaric ideologies .. which produced the greatest cruelties and violations of humanity in the 20th century .. were fascism .. Nazism and communism . . . . all secular

.

Hitchens is wrong in that he condemns all religious expression to the category of such violent and negative expressions . . . Many of the noblest expressions of humanity throughout the centuries have been performed in the name of religion . . . One thinks of William Wilberforce and his long campaign to end the slave trade in the British Empire . . . Both the British and American abolitionist movements were founded .. nurtured .. financed and led to victory against the horrific evil of slavery by people who were most often inspired and motivated by deep religious conviction

.

The great social reform movements of the last half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century ( child labor reform .. etc ) were often led by people of deep religious faith .. Protestant and Catholic

.

And of course .. in the lifetime of many of us who were born in the last half of the 20th century .. the most successful and greatest reform movement was the civil rights revolution .. led by a Baptist minister .. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr .. who often said that the movement and the faith that inspired it could not be separated . . . As many will remember .. the civil rights revolution was supported by and led to victory in large part because of the leadership of clergy .. black and white

.

Lastly .. one is led to ask Mr. Hitchens some questions ..

.

• Where are the great atheist-sponsored charitable and reform movements ?

.

• Where are the atheist children homes and orphanages ? ( no .. the government will not count )

.

• Where are the atheist leaders who are taking vows of poverty and giving themselves in sacrificial service to others ?

.

As Arthur C. Brooks .. professor at Syracuse University .. points out in his recent book .. Who Really Cares ? (2006): Religious people are far more generous with their own time and money than secularists .. Brooks concludes .. “Religious folks are by far the most charitable people in America today”

.

. . . . . Dr Richard Land