Islam - Middle Age Crisis

Islam is 800 years younger than Christianity

Today the  Muslim Faithful are where Christians were during the Middle Ages

when the infallibility of the Pope was challenged by Protestant heretics

their rebellious challenge regarding the Divine Appointment of the Papal Succession

was a fundamental  test of Catholic Church Authority 
which saw itself as the spiritual medium between man and God

The denunciation set off a fanatical religious reaction throughout Roman Catholicism

and resulted in a murderous Religious Inquisition that split Western culture in two

allowing Christianity to evolve into the reasonably moderate faith it is today

By denigrating their "Pope" - Mohammed

the same religious history is being repeated in Islam

as this younger faith goes through its own growing pains

their righteous anger at our scorn 
towards the Divinely appointed founder of their Scripture

and violent retaliation

may seem fanatically primitive to us today
but not to Muslims

who are as passionate about their Faith 
and its origins

as we once were

and they have the same historical right to feel as they do
as we once did

The majority of western educated Muslims are reasonably moderate

those in the Middle East are more conservative

Civilizations are defined by their cultures

culture is derived from 'Cult' - formally small religious sects

who, via the moral and intellectual influence of their written Scriptures

achieved national predominance 

and thus defined the character of its people

To insult a major religion

is to insult the entire culture and everything that defines it

If we refuse to learn from the mistakes

encountered during common evolution of our kind

and recognize our similar histories of graduated development

the same mistakes are doomed to repeat

when two major Faiths

involving two billion souls

start a world war

may God help us all