Valid point about Islam being a political organization (or set of organizations, given that the Sunnis and Shias will never agree to disagree about which side has the full truth and nothing but the truth).
The major difference between Islam and Christianity is the nature of their founding personalities. Jesus was the essense of normality (that was, in fact, his whole reason for being--to model "normality," that is, what we, as Children of God, are supposed to be like). Muhammed was the essense of non-normality.
I strongly urge everyone to check out
http://www.non-normie.com, where Jack Thomas has defined non-normies and showed out of long experience how children turn into non-normies. Take his test to see where you fall on the spectrum between normieness and non-normieness. You can also apply the test to anyone you know or know of.
It's clear that Muhammed was a flaming Right-Polar non-normie, and therefore Islam is more properly a cult, or set of related cults, that goes out of its way to create more flaming (in some cases literally!) non-normies.
While Jesus was the essence of normality, given that until he lived among us, most of humankind was lost in non-normieness (aka sin), it shouldn't be too surprising that a fairly large percentage of his modern followers (at least the loudmouths) are non-normies rather than normies.
The wonder is that there are so many normies (about 85% of the population of the U.S., according to Mr. Thomas, and an unknown percentage of the world population) in this day and age. Nor are all of them necessarily Christians. You don't hear much from them, however, because they're too busy earning a living, caring for their families, helping their neighbors, inventing better mousetraps, defending their towns, cities, and nations against the self-destructive natures of the non-normies of the world, and generally living real lives as real adults.
Non-normies of all stripes, on the other hand, are loudmouths precisely because they have frozen themselves at the age of 8 (according to Jack; I would have said the age of 4), by deciding to stop at anger in the five steps of grief over any loss. To hang onto anger, resentment, and grudges instead of letting go is the ultimate in stupid, so you could say non-normies by nature are stuck on stupid.
Once stuck on stupid, it is almost impossible for a non-normie to get unstuck through his or her own efforts, probably because it requires the gut-wrenching recognition that one has been horribly and unnecessarily stupid. But once a non-normie comes to that recognition, with the help of a 12-step program, there is hope for healing and learning how to behave normally most of the time. Such people are thus best described as recovering non-normies.
It's almost impossible for adherents of Islam to become recovering non-normies without being killed by their fellow adherents, precisely because the whole structure of Islam is designed to control essentially every thought and action of its adherents. The word does, after all, mean submission. Muhammed is the classic example of a control freak who's succeeded in controlling large numbers of people long after his demise. Even though Stalin may have been responsible for many more millions of deaths as a result of his efforts to control everyone around him, Muhammed is responsible for large numbers of deaths over a much longer period of time. And he will be responsible for many more in years to come.
There are three ways to deal with non-normies, once you've identified them (or they've made themselves obvious). First, ignore them. This makes them scream ever louder until they get your attention and you have to kill them in self-defense. Second, laugh at them--and be prepared to kill them in self-defense. Third, remove yourself from their presence to a sufficient distance that they can't easily reach you and will turn their attention to more inviting targets of wrath.
We have, and to some extent still are, attempting to ignore the flaming non-normies on both the Right and Left, and we're on the verge of having to kill a lot of them in self-defense.
We are beginning to laugh at them and point out that they are not normal, and therefore shouldn't expect to be taken seriously. We're not yet ready to defend ourselves against their fury at being made fun of, especially in this country.
We're not yet thinking seriously about removing ourselves permanently from their presence, largely because that requires a frontier, and the only one left is out there, above our heads. It's still very expensive to get into that frontier--but the cost of access could drop rapidly if enough normies and recovering non-normies decided building cities and towns in orbit, beyond the easy reach of the non-normies demanding obiescence from everyone else, was worth the investment of their time, energy, and resources.
Sure, the non-normies will try to stop us--or come with us--but if we plan properly to deal with the trouble they start before it goes too far, we have half a chance of building places in space where most of the inhabitants are normal and the occasional non-normie sticks out like a sore thumb. We can deal with sore thumbs.
If this third option interests you, check out my blog for more information about how to get there from here.
Meanwhile, I'm adding you to my blog roll.