I will concede Christianity has a history that includes blood on its hands. That, however, is the result of people in power misstating — for many reasons — what Christ and the Gospels had advocated. It is interesting to note that in those days of violence most people could not read and thus had to take the word of those who could.

Neither Christianity nor Judaism has violence as as tenet of the religion. It is not summarily advocated. Not so with Islam.

Islam advocates violence against non-believers who refuse to convert or submit to it. It is in their holy book, the Koran. It was advocated and practiced by Mohammad, who is considered the infallible mosiah of Islam. It is thus a tennet of their religion; a religion based on hatred of all non-believers with a religious mandate from Allah to destroy them. The enlightenment therefore is an anathma to them.

As such Islam cannot change. For Islam to change it would literally require it become a new and different religion — something I doubt we’ll see. The Koran would have to be totally revised and edited, the tenets of the religion drastically reformed, and Mohammad literally refuted.

I personally suspect it would be easier for a tiger to abandon his stripes.