Christian

Violence in
History

http://www.islam101.com/terror/christianViolence.htm

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The horrible truth is that, numerically and statistically speaking,
Christian Civilization is the bloodiest and most violent of all civilizations
in all of history, and is responsible for hundreds of millions of deaths.
Even so, Muslims will never associate this violence and blood bath with
the teachings of Jesus (peace be on him).

Saint Augustine’s cognite intrare Millions were tortured and

(“lead them in”—i.e. “force them slaughtered in the name of
to convert”). In fact the Qur’an Christianity during the periods of
says the exact opposite: There is the Arian, Donatist and
no compulsion in religion ( 2:256 Albigensian heresies
). Augustine’s frightening idea
that all must be compelled to
“conform” to the “true Christian
faith” has unleashed centuries of
unparalleled bloodshed. Indeed,
Christians have suffered more
under the rule of Christian
civilization than under pre-
Christian Roman rule or any other
rule in history.
The European armies were
saying, as they slaughtered both
The Crusades
Christian and Muslim Arabs: “Kill
them all, God will know his own.”
Two thirds of the Christian
Europe's Reformation and
population of Europe was
Counter Reformation Era
slaughtered by Christians
The African slave trade Claimed the lives of 10 million
Estimates for the number of
Native Americans slaughtered by
the Europeans in North, Central
The Colonial Conquests
and South America run as high as
20 million within three
generations.
A conservative estimate puts the
total number of brutal deaths in
The 20 th century's Western the 20 th century at more than 250
Civilization took warfare to new million. Of these, Muslims are
extremes responsible for less than 10
million deaths. Christians, or
those coming from Christian

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 backgrounds account for more
than 200 million of these! The
greatest death totals come from
World War I (about 20 million, at
least 90 % of which were inflicted
by “Christians”) and World War II
( 90 million, at least 50% of which
were inflicted by “Christians,” the
majority of the rest occurring in
the Far East). Given this grim
history, it appears that we
Europeans must all come to grips
with the fact that Islamic
civilization has actually been
incomparably less brutal than
Christian civilization. Did the
Holocaust of over 6 million Jews
occur out of the background of a
Muslim Civilization?
Western and/or Christian powers
have been responsible for at least
twenty times more deaths than
In the 20th century alone
have Muslim powers. In this most
brutal of centuries, we created
incomparably more civilian
casualties than have Muslims in
the whole of Islamic history.
Witness the slaughter of 900,000
In the 20th century, Rawanda,
Rwandans in 1994 in a population
1994
that was over 90 % Christian
The genocide of over 300,000
Muslims and systematic rape of
1992-1995 Bosnia
over 100,000 Muslim women by
Christian Serbs
It should also be mentioned that
although Islam has the concept of
legitimate war in self-defense (as
does Christianity, and even
Buddhism), nowhere in Islamic
culture (or in other cultures that
survive today) is there latent the
Western popular culture
idealization, and perhaps
idolization, of violence that exists
in Western Culture. Westerners
think of themselves as peaceful,
but in fact the gentleness and
sublimity of the New Testament,
and the peace-loving nature of

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 the principles of democracy, are
scarcely reflected in Western
popular culture. Rather, the entire
inclination of popular culture—
Hollywood movies, Western
television, video games, popular
music and sports entertainment—
is to glorify and inculcate
violence. Accordingly, the relative
rates of murder (especially
random and serial murder) are
higher in the Western World
(particularly in the U.S., but even
in Europe, taken as a whole) than
they are in the Islamic world in
counties that are not suffering
civil wars, and this true despite
the much greater wealth of the
West.

Reference:
http://www.islamicamagazine.com/content/view/159/59/