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VANCOUVER- How is it that North American Christians feel that they hold enough moral high ground to denounce Muslim violence? The Muslim Jihad is really no different than the Crusades; in fact, it is in principle, the very same thing! And Christian violence didn't end with the crusades either. Can we deny that at least some Christians feel justified and even righteous in their bombing of abortion clinics?

At a certain point in the history of Christianity, there was a general belief that Jesus did want his followers to go out and kill unbelievers. What became of that? The Crusades (a Holy War perpetrated by the West against the Middle East), the Spanish Inquisition, and a host of other crimes against humanity, were the results of the spiritual ardor of "devout" Christians. And now, Islam, which is actually a newer religious movement than Christianity (in fact Mohammed lived approximately 600 years after Christ's death), is going through the same phase. We can only hope that it is a phase similar to the Christian one, and that it will end after several generations.

But really, Christians have very little moral high ground to stand upon as they condemn Islam for violence. Christianity's historical mass violence may have ended, but how many Christians still espouse a doctrine of corporal punishment that many governments have denounced as child abuse? How many Christians still believe in the fundamentally lesser intrinsic value of women than of men? How many still believe in capital punishment in the face of undeniable evidence that it only serves to hurt society as a whole?

I think that Christians all over the world should, and I paraphrase, remove the plank from their eye before they try to take the speck out of someone else's. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.