Are Christians more tolerant than Muslims

I believe the question is rotten from its roots.Such a generalisation can't be made...

Are christians toleranter than muslims????? Strange question, but anyway here is my reply; It depends on who's the christian and who's the muslim. No generalisation can work, and historicism wont help us, as the question aims to compare modern believers (not religious dogma)

Yes, there are no more crussades, but what about the IRA, the incidents between the protestants and the catholics, or what about the conflicts between serbs, croats and bosnians (i m not considering Kosova, because that might be considered as a nationalistic conflist)

Could be called "Christian leaders" the European leaders? What do they have in common with Christianism?

Thanks Loknar, at least has sombody said the point, for which i am waiting from the begin on.

Reform, reform, reform.....

 -Christianity has undergone many reforms, such as the one instigated by Martin Luther. There are so many christian fractions with their own interpretations of the bible that tolerance is necessitated as these people live close to each other. Meanwhile, Islam has not undergone any reforms and is still stuck in the dark ages.

 -Significant proof that proximity creates tolerance can be found where muslims and christians are or have been neighbours, in the balkans for instance, or Spain. Under Ottoman rule the balkan areas where christians and muslims crossed paths there was no hostility between them, the same goes for Spain until the reconquista.

 -The lack of reform within Islam and the distancing from muslims by the west has lead to a closed society and these always stagnate. Take the USA for instance, it has a relatively large muslim population yet there were few real protests against the Muhammed cartoons. That is not to say that they were not offended but they had more respect for democratic ideals. In Norway it was pretty much the same(Though some elements, mostly recent immigrants, called for the desruction of the west), peaceful protests and respect for other's opinions.

 -If more "westerners" were to move to the middle east and merge with the population then slowly moderation would evolve and mutual respect(Of opinions and faith) begin to emerge. Sadly, the unstable countries, the discriminating laws and human rights violations generally discourage this. There's a reason why muslims are moving to Europe. Jordan and Lebanon are very moderate countries though.

Originally posted by Maziar Thanks Loknar, at least has sombody said the point, for which i am waiting from the begin on. Yes, if you insult Christianity, there is no major problem. In general, if you insult Islam, you get to fear for your life. But what is the reason? what makes christians more tolerant than Muslims?

For me 2 main reasons:

1.The Gospels and the Koran.
Totally different spirit of the text.

(For not being misunderstood ,i am not really practising religion)

2.Also ,we cannot make comparisons between Western and Middle Eastern societies,judging by religion.
Religion's effect in the West in 2006,has nothing to do with the religion's effect in Middle Eastern populations.




Edited by Digenis - 12-Jun-2006 at 07:59

Originally posted by Arber Z In different times of history both religions were spread by the sword!

It is a historical fact that no muslim population has ever been converted by force.
Islam has never been spread by the sword.

Originally posted by Digenis 2.Also ,we cannot make comparisons between Western and Middle Eastern societies,judging by religion. Religion's effect in the West in 2006,has nothing to do with the religion's effect in Middle Eastern populations

Edited by Maziar - 12-Jun-2006 at 23:29

What about the Afgan afew months ago who was going to be sentenced to death for conversion to Christianity, only foriegn intervention saved him. I belive many muslims are still living in a medieval mindset, and on this question i would have to say Christians are more tolerant. Thats not to say however that there is not exceptions on both sides. Also maybe the fact that Christians are more tolerant now is to do with that fact that they are less and less faithful and most don't care about what the pope or other religious leaders say anymore. However Muslims are still very faithful when compared with Christians.