Another view of Islamophobia

"Out of control clergy, religious demagogues with their consecrated militias, religious parties usurping the functions of the state . . . It all sounds like the worst stereotypes of contemporary radical Islam, in Iran and Somalia, Iraq and Lebanon.  . . .  Just a century after the conversion of the Roman empire [in the 300s AD], Christian churches were acting precisely on the lines of the most extreme Islamic mullahs today." (my emphasis) 

So writes Philip Jenkins in Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 Years (New York, HarperOne, 2010), p. 30.

“The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” — Albert Einstein