I think you mean "barbaric Muslim behavior" as it was their continuous expansion up the continent towards Europe that sparked the Crusades.
Wow. You've been reading a lot of revisionist literature. Arab expansion, at worst, falls into the same category as the expansion of groups (even Christian barbarians) like the Franks. You are cherry picking Arab expansion to fit your worldview. Sorry, Christians were busy killing themselves and the Sassanids at the same time. And, because of that, opened the way for Arab encroachment into Europe. Please spare me your us versus them bullshit reading of history.
So the French Revolution--a secularly motivated movement--was a civilized alternative to all of the incidents of violence that occurred...you know, even though it caused more death and suffering than all incidents of Inquisition violence combined.
Would like to see your stats for that.
That said, the French Revolution was rationalism taken to a religious level. Bad things happen whenever things are taken religiously. Thanks for re-affirming my point.
As such, your claim that a Christian would have been just as likely to commit this crime is rather unfounded--especially since whatever past acts of violence you can come up with regards to Christians were ordered by edicts of authority figures in the Catholic Church or the Protestant movements. This is opposed to individual Christians taking the decision to execute others into their own hands according to a mentality you think they have in common with Muslims.
Oh, wait, I thought we established at Nuremberg that "only following orders" wasn't an excuse. Yet, now, here you are trying to weasel out of every individual Christian's picking up a sword and killing Jews, Muslims, Gypsies, or each other by claiming they were only following orders. Try again or admit you would've acquitted Goering.
