Wow, just shut the fuck up, I'm really getting tired of the bullshit you keep spreading in every thread that involves Islam. If anyone does agree with you, then I pity them, it must be so horrible to live an ignorant and hateful life.

You should read more about the decline of the Roman Empire. It didn;t fall because it was proud and happy due to it's cultural superiority.

On ideological level yes, but it's quite complex phenomenon to describe in one sentence given demography of those who participated in the Crusades. Often certain events of the Crusades have nothing to do with being anti-Islamic, hence the Christian Orthodox people who suffered from, simply put, brigandish raids of the crusaders.

All in all, attempts to present Christianity as 'tolerant' religion that laid down the foundations of modern morale of western world are a bit off. If the Crusades towards Islamic world could be explained as reactionary move, how'd you explain Northern Crusades against the Orthodox then, or internal oppression of heretics through the Inquisition etc.? Christianity as religious organization, i.e. Christian Church in it's original form (Roman Catholic Church), is hardly tolerant and used to be very expansionist (the same applies to the Orthodox Church). If anything laid such foundations, this's probably Protestant morale. Bottomline is... 'tolerance' is to a great extent is a phenomenon of modern western world morale, hardly Christinaity has anything to do with it.

I always thought that it was more like North Americans act somewhat maturely, whereas Muslims abroad are a bunch of whiney brats.

The paradox is that Christianity made the West humane, soft and tolerant but the people who are pushing the turn-the-other-cheek mentality into the self hate and suicide of our culture we are witnessing today are non-religious liberals and socialists.

You make a fair point. Fact is, most muslims are a lot more sensitive to religious defamation. Christians used to be aswell, but the Churches have lost their stranglehold over the political systems as most Christian countries less conservative. A lot Muslims do this sort of thing as their countries still set their laws by the laws of their religion. 

If you look at muslims in countries in the west you can see that most are a lot more tolerant and dont participate in things such as Bible burnings. My guess is these sort of things will continue until all countries separate their religion and their political system.

i think we can drop the middle east being poor,

i still can't believe we hear that excuse

Muslims aren't brave for burning bibles. They're just crazy. 

I look at it this way. Overseas they are people who live in 3rd world countries which are still ruled by faith rather then choice. Since those nations haven't matured yet it is expected they burn books and kill people of faiths they refuse to believe in (even though Christianity was born from Hebrew and Islamic faith mostly...). Once these countries get a grip on reality and move their economies into at least being a classified as a 2nd world nation things like book burning and anti-other faiths will stop or be dramatically cut down. Of course it will never ever end, as there are extremists in the US today in the form of say the Westboro Church, Scientology, and others.

Still, in those nations there are people who will not burn other faiths books and murder people. It is mostly the fanatics that do all the extreme things.

You do understand that in many cultures and 3rd world nations that marrying women that young is 100% legal. What is socially right in the US/UK/etc isn't what is socially right in other nations and cultures. And social view points can and will constantly evolve and change even in estabilished 1st world nations. For example, here in the US people are starting to reconsider the some marrage laws due to women maturing faster then ever before. Sooner or later I could see the US adjusting laws to allow a 16 year old to marry no questions asked due to this. Is it wrong that things might change to this? No. In today's society it would be viewed socially wrong, but tomorrow society will question somethings and change view points.

As with the murder of innocent people, it happens throughout history no matter what religion, culture, nation, belief system you look at. Do you really think the USA does not have the blood of innocent people on their hands? How about the Roman Cathlolic Church? Heck, even God has innocent blood on his hands.