Whether valid or not, every complaint that secular critics say they have about Christianity, from women's issues to slavery, is not only a tangible part of Islam, but usually magnified.
While the Catholic church is castigated for not allowing female priests, the fundamentalists of Islam force women into burqas and blow up schools that educate girls. Even activists known for championing women's rights in the Muslim world rationalize keeping captured women as sex slaves, since it is explicitly permitted in the Quran.
While Christians usually object to extra-marital sex, only Islamic purists plant consenting adults in the ground and stone them to death. And, if a gay couple doesn't get a wedding cake from a Baptist baker, this hardly compares to being thrown off a high building.
Christians are told to emulate Jesus - a pacifist and servant - and "walk, even as he walked" (1 John 2:6). Unlike Muhammad, who ordered military assaults against Christians, for example, Jesus told his followers not to resort to violence and to pray for one's enemies.
Jesus and Muhammad could hardly have been more different in how they lived or in what they taught others. Why should we not expect starkly contrasting legacies? Indeed, that is what we see, from the conduct of their closest companions to the livability of modern-day countries influenced by the predominance of one founder's teachings over the other.
