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I'm not on the side of the people you're arguing against but I have to speak up because your argument doesn't work. And here is why:

Jihad is in the Quran.

The Bible simply doesn't have a parallel recurring call to holy war.

So "by that logic," no. This isn't simple generalizing from the actions of a minority, in which case your criticism would be warranted. Go back to the source material.

And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out. And Al-Fitnah [disbelief or unrest] is worse than killing... And fight them until there is no more Fitnah [disbelief and worshiping of others along with Allah] and worship is for Allah alone.

Fighting is prescribed for you, and ye dislike it. But it is possible that ye dislike a thing which is good for you, and that ye love a thing which is bad for you. But Allah knoweth, and ye know not.

I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.

O Prophet, exhort the believers to fight...

Slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captive and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush

Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.

O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness.

It's all in the Quran, I'm sorry to say.

There are no parallels of such fertile calls to war in the Bible. Nothing for Christian crazies to use as justification. Maybe the verse about bringing a sword, but that's not nearly as clear cut as the multiple Quranic verses that tell believers to slay unbelievers until there is no god but Allah.

The source material for Islam is simply much more dangerous. This is why their crazies have support, why there are more than a small handful of them. They have textual support for their insanity that the source material of other religions does not provide.

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