ok, I’ll bite…how so?

You seem to try to limit Muslim terrorism to the Arabs, but the you ignore the Iranians, Pakistanis, Afghanis, the Moro’s in the Philippines, if you believe the Chinese, the Uighurs, Chechens, Dagestanis, Jemaah Islamiyah in Indonesian, etc. You give credit to Hezbollah as not being terrorist, but they are committed to the destruction of Israel. In addition, the reason that Hezbollah (Shiites) is fighting Isis (Sunnis) is sectarian not because they are fighting terrorism. The same applies to the Houthis (Shiite) and AQAP (Sunni). These are primarily proxy wars between Iran and Saudi Arabia and other Sunni nations.

As to the terrorism in Africa it is mostly tribal, and yes some of the tribes are Christian and commit atrocities and some tribes are Muslim and commit atrocities.
Maybe Mr. Bruno’s beef with Christianity is that an ancient potential relative of his was killed during the Inquisition. As if the Inquisition is relevant to current day Christianity other than as a reminder of what the religion should not do.

The difference between Christians and Muslims when an act of terror is committed by one of there coreligionists, Christians in general condemn it, while Muslims are in general silent. In western common law, silence connotes assent.

While Christian Fundamentalists in the U.S. protest and fight the changing of laws related to homosexual marriage and abortion, the mostly do it peacefully. In Muslim countries, homosexuality is a sin punishable by death. So in the U.S. you may not like that someone is opposed to abortion or homosexual marriage, you are still alive. Heaven forbid if you are a woman and are raped or commit adultery in an Islamic country, there is a high probability that you will be killed and the killing will be legal. The Christian tenet is hate the sin but love the sinner.
Most nominally Christian countries are not ruled by “Biblical Law”. Their laws are often based on Judeo-Christian ethics, but not “Biblical Law”. Therefore the laws of the Old Testament that call for stoning like blasphemy are not enforced because the Old Testament has been superseded by the New Testament. As we have seen from some Muslims, even though the blasphemy occurred in a Non-Muslim country you can still be killed. If you leave the Christian religion you are not put to death. The same cannot be said for Islam.
I think the main issue that Islam has unlike Christianity, is that his never undergone a Reformation. So in effect it is still a medieval religion.
Finally the vast majority of current terrorism is committed by Muslims in the name of Islam, whether you believe they are properly interpreting the Koran, etc. or not. Most terrorism is Muslim, but most Muslims are not terrorist, but the vast majority of Muslims are silent in the face of Muslim terrorism.

Everyone knows that there are non-Islamic terrorist acts occurring from time to time, but the proportion of them to Islamic terrorism, is small. That seems to be the point you are missing, as though to say that if some other movement or nation has any issues whatsoever, we cannot criticize those that are totally out of control. If we had thought like that in the 1940s, we’d all be speaking German now – except for the Jews, who would be extinct.
I think the best course of action for the West is to totally withdraw from the Middle East, and let the Sunnis and Shiites fight each other without interference. This would resolve things, eventually, at least as best as they can be resolved – just as the West resolved a lot of issues via total war in the 1930s/40s. A harsh truth, but a truth nonetheless.

Fine, of course I accept what you say as fact, and most of us are well-aware of things such as the Muenster rebellion, the Catholic church’s pogroms and so on, but we are not living in history – we are living today. In large part, the problem of Christianity being used as a pretense for religious/ethnic cleansing was solved long, long, ago, but this is clearly not true of Islam. When is Islam going to have its Reformation, as Christianity did? Now there’s a historical question to be dug into. When are we going to see ANY majority Muslim countries which allow true religious freedom? Not anytime soon, I would guess – and there are issues stemming from the Koran itself for why this is so.

Then the US fully qualifies

You usually produce decent analyses however, this particular piece is way off the mark and lacks historical substance.
In fact, terrorism is merely a state-of-mind. But you’ve chosen to conflate its myriad forms and distance this contemporary version from reality. Islamic terrorism is proliferating at an alarming rate because of articles like yours that choose to ignore, or refuse to call it what it is – Islamic terrorism. By your very ignorance you are justifying its perpetuation.

Oh you of the teutonic mask, what absolute rubbish. Nothing is made up and the crusades are a matter of opinion; I opine in favor of the view that they were overall a bad example of Christianity in action and I stress this is in no way an endorsement of Islam, something I would never dream of doing.

No, you miss the point, There is much terrorism that has nothing to do with Islam happening right now in many of the same regions that are mentioned in the news. No doubt, Islamism is a problem, a major one, but it won’t be resolved by more wars and ever more antagonistic attitudes. recognizing that we are at sin also – as Jesus would suggest – is the first step to making better decisions

I am, in general, a fan of the New Testament – not the Old, not in the least – and I am not suggesting anyone should convert to Islam or Christianity (I consider myself neither). All I want is for people to do some historical analysis, and even going a few decades back