No one calls these attacks "blowback"

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13. Yes

Christianity, too, is an imperialist religion whose followers are commanded to "spread the word." A main difference between Christianity and Islam is that Christianity doesn't have rules describing how to spread it, so the violence we saw in the past (and which my family personally experienced) could transition to the less-violent missionary work and right-wing Christian political activism we see today. Islam, on the other hand, specifically requires followers to offer non-Muslims the choice of conversion or death, or if Christians or Jews, the imposition of religiously-required discrimination. It will be much more difficult for Islam to abandon its bigoted and violent teachings because they are so specifically enumerated as the true and perfect word of Allah that Muslims are required to follow.