[maskedmelon]

I don't think its useful to make fun of rape victims or draw comparisons between the Bible and the Qur'an because as my love points out, there are parallels when the two books are compared as a whole. I do think the man in OP is behaving foolishly though, but man always behaves foolishly when he abandons reason for principle.

The problems for Christianity are the dichotomy of the Old and New testaments, or the Tora and the teachings of Christ and his apostles. They offer two very different messages. The latter largely invalidates the former and that is important because it offers a mechanism within the ideology to unequivocally rebuke proponents of the former. Islam lacks that.

Additionally, most contemporary Protestant ministers teach passages from the Old Testament through a New Testament filter, because without Christ's perspective it's just Judaism, which has only been checked my millennia of persecution.

It honestly blows my mind though that most Christians do not favor a more liberal agenda given Christ's message of forgiveness and humility. It just goes to show that even with a tool for combatting disagreeable language, the presence of the language has a germane effect and offers an avenue for exploitation to which all ideologies are susceptible.

On of the problems for Islam, is (someone more versed in the Qur'an may correct me if I am wrong here) that one passage is no more authoritative than another. They are all words from the mouths of god and his apostle Mohammad. That means that even if you find a passage that preaches peace, there is nothing making it anymore valid than one preaching war. That is aside from the fact that most 'peaceful' language within the Qur'an is either concerned exclusively with Muslims or includes others in some underhanded fashion.

Christianity was stopped from being a global terror by disempowerment it and by extension minimizing the exploitation of it. There is no avenue to do that with Islam. It is a very real threat to humanity.