Straw-man argument.
There may be a tiny minority of megalomaniacs who aspire to that. For that matter, there are a few Christians who say they want to make the entire planet Christian. The rest of the world's major religions don't believe in Jihad or Crusades.
There's one tiny difference, Jacob. Crusading Christians don't have an organized political following at the moment (this is not 1100). There is an organized political following behind jihad at the moment, usually called Islamism, and it's backing various Muslim vs. the other struggles with terrorism and violence. It's launching a war against America (cf. Khobar Towers, the Tanzinian and Kenyam embassies, the Cole, and Sept 11th), and Islamiscizing various nationalist struggles (cf. the Hamas and PIJ, Chechnya, Kashmir, Indonesia and the Phillipines).
There just aren't any comparable religio-political violent movements among other religions, except to a much lesser extent among militant Hindus in India. There are certainly no armed and militant Christian groups raiding into Islamic terroritory and imposing the Cross by force.
Instead, the opponents of Islamizm are mostly modern nation-states, a very different political construct. India, Israel, the US, Russia, Indonesia and the Phillipines are not crusading Christian or Jewish entities. They are modern states. |
