Fpqxz, I have to say... I am disappoint.
Biblical literalism is a fairly recent innovation in Christianity. Quranic literalism has been a feature of (most) of the surviving sects of Islam, though some are a bit more "serious" about it than others.
Actually, Jihadism as a political and religious ideology (it later became the basis for groups like the Taliban and Al Qaeda) only arose in the last century or so, invented by two
really fundamentalist clerics who claimed that the entire Qu'ran was corrupted after Muhammad's death, dismissing all other Islamic scholarship. Sorry, I've just studied this topic in the past, and I couldn't let this go.
The only differences are that 1) right now, the West is not in conflict with the Vatican or with Judaism, and 2) neither of these religions has the sort of expansionist doctrines that Islam has (at least, not in the present day).
"Expansionist doctrine"? Um, this isn't the Ottoman Empire we're talking about, dude. The Muslim population growing in Western countries is not "expansionism," just "immigration."
Would the US also invade Europe, Africa and Asia to eliminate the "menace," as they're also becoming quite populous there as well? Not to mention prison/concentration camps in Canada and the US? It's a religion, not a race, anyone can become a Muslim and not that many of them are extremist, despite what the popular media decides to portray.
Considering the incredibly toxic political climate after 9/11, I would seriously not have been so surprised if the U.S. herded Muslims into internment camps, even the ones who were loyal American citizens. They've already done that during WWII with loyal Japanese-American citizens. I know kids whose grandparents were forced to leave all their property behind, and they basically grew up in those camps for the entire war. Why? Because they might have "racial/nationalistic ties" to their "home country." Yes, even the ones who were
born here.The fact that we are training our military to believe in abject bigotry and racism through propaganda is disgusting and reprehensible. This is not a war about religion, it never was. It was a war about oil. They're just exploiting people's Islamophobia to dehumanize the"enemy" and make him seem "other" - the same way we humans do in every war. It helps many of these soldiers justify the "collateral damage" and other atrocities committed there.
I'd like you to meet Nayzak. Classy dude, he is. He's a Muslim, and his religion is the topic of most if not all of his art.
http://nayzak.deviantart.com/