Comment by EGreg

Ok I don't understand the last sentenxe but I think we both agree that we shouldn't confuse the need to fight Islamism with a need to fight Islam. You may be right that Christianity has just as much potential to be used to justify Christianism - but as you and I both agree we now have very few nations AND very few violent revolutionary groups seeking to replace existing governments with ones organized along a "Christian political structure" whatever that may be. I was trying to say that Christianity doesn't COMPEL large swaths of the population at any given point to strongly support a political revolution towards Christianism, which is why the separation of Church and State is rather stable. Whereas I feel that the QuRan among its contents contains prominent instructions as to how a polity is to be set up. Christian writings have this too but the organizational principle is more akin to anarchism so whatever the political leaders wind up using isn't from the NT. Don't you see a difference in the nature of the writings at all when it comes to political structure, conquering and physical violence? I will give one example:

http://corpus.quran.com/translation.jsp?chapter=8&verse=67

Tell me where do you have a comparable verse in the NT? These pronouncements have been interpreted to apply to modern times as well, since Muslims are to emulate Mohammad. That is what I mean.

Look I could be wrong and at the end of the day the only danger I see is in the political and violent aspects of the writings, as something that makes it hard to separate Mosque and State given enough people. It's a "rule of the game" that you can't jettison as easily as Christians can. That's what I meant.