You never get Palestinian Christians blowing themselves up on a bus.

However you get Christians perpetrating plenty of atrocities in Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Chile, Argentina, South Africa, Northern Ireland, etc, etc within the last 20-30 years.

Also note that you don't get Palestinian Muslims taking over Jewish-owned land at gunpoint and building fortified settlements there.

Islam is an agressive and expansionist religion with a history soaked in blood, as we in London, Madrid, Israel, Philipines, etc. know only too well.

Compare to Christianity, which has *such* a history of love and tolerance behind it, right? Yugoslavia, Rwanda, etc, etc as above - never mind what fun we could have if we go back 60-70 years to the Nazis, or further back to what they got up to during the Middle Ages until the Enlightenment put a serious cap on what the church could get away with. And as for "expansionist" - what do you think the multi-million-dollar recruiting trips by fundamentalist preachers to places like Eastern Europe are for? Or by all previous Christian missionaries?

And then we get onto treatment of other minorities - murder of doctors in clinics that carry out abortions, murder of homosexuals, etc. These are all things which fundamentalist Christians are famous for.

Don't get me wrong - I don't think there's anything wrong with Christianity, or even with fundamentalist Christianity. But we can say is that anyone who thinks their brand of religion gives them carte blanche to kill everyone who disagrees with them is a right bastard. And all they're accomplishing by trying to defend the Gates of Heaven against the rest of the world is ensuring that they're not going to be getting in...

Graham.