I also compared al-queda to the KKK... I have heard just as many (or more) muslims come out and condemn al-queda as I've heard protestants come out and condemn the KKK. AGAIN to clarify, we're talking about fringe groups using religion as their excuse... not the religion itself. When people start talking about the religion itself, that's when christianity loses it's credibility because the most common and official church of christianity (the catholic church) officially sactioned those atrocities mentioned. The "religion" of islam is also much younger than christianity, so they haven't had as much time to mellow out as western christians have. (read christians were much more violent at this stage in the religion's development.) Also, by and large the violent muslim groups you've been stereotyping with (al queda) are of the shia, not sunni (sunni is the largest group by a wide margin)