Naomi - //Christianity does involve the Old Testament. However, the Old Testament doesn’t command its adherents to kill anyone who disagrees with them. Furthermore, although the Bible does command death to homosexuals – and to disobedient children for that matter –those instructions are, these days at least, ignored, possibly because, unlike the Koran which is considered to be the direct word of God and hence beyond criticism and unchangeable, the bible is deemed to have been written by men inspired by God and therefore is open to interpretation and modification. Additionally, whilst the Hebrews were commanded to slaughter the inhabitants of their Promised Land, and did so with relish, unlike Islamists they didn’t continue to seek to conquer other nations and other civilisations. The Jews don’t want converts. Islam does – and for them nothing less will do. //
The seriously tenuous argument which you offer with regularity - that the Bible is 'open to interpretation', and the Koran is 'the word of God' simply does not represent reason.
All religious texts are open to interpretation, and are interpreted by people who read them.
The notion that all Christians take the bits of the bible that suit, and run with those, and that Muslims take the Koran totally literally, and behave accordingly, takes an invalid assumption that the followers of each faith must work on the basis of your decided methods.
The simple fact is, human nature is at play here, as it is with everyone who is human.
That means that some Christians will take the Bible as something to followed slavishly, and the vast majority will take some of it, and adapt it to suit what makes them happy and comfortable.
Where your argument fails is that some Muslims will do exactly the same with the Koran, and the vast majority will do the same, take some of it and adapt it.
The idea that Christians are somehow absolved from the violent aspects of their text, and Muslims are not, is frankly without foundation.
The evidence that 99% or Christians and 99% of Muslims are not plucking out offensive eyes, or murdering infidels proves my point.
Fanaticism propped up by religion is a sad fact of life, but to parlay it into the notion that Muslims want everyone to see the world as they do is simply not a sustainable argument, however 'expertly' it may be argued.