There is a long history of charletans, politicians, criminals, and other unsavory characters using one religion or another as a pretext for their actions.  That doesnt&#x27; mean that their actions had anything to do with those religions.  You have to exercise a little more discernment to dig into what they&#x27;re saying and what the religion actually advocates to come to a conclusion.<p>In the case of Christianity, I think it is telling that at the time the founder was teaching, there was a dictator in Rome who claimed to be god and who was heavily suppressing the ethnic group (Jews) that the founder belonged to.<p>Did this man advocate any sort of political or violent acts to remedy the situation?  No.<p>I don&#x27;t think it really matters what the opinion is of a lot of people when we can merely look at recorded history and see what the founder of Islam did.