1) Can't comment directly on the Old Testament part, but that's why I also mentioned the Catecism. Also, our information about the Caananites is rather limited. Maybe they were so corrupt that their society had to be crushed and you would agree if you were there. Societies like those formed by the Nazis didn't just exist in the 20th century you know. There was real hard-core baby-killing human-sacrifice stuff going on back then. If the Aztecs existed today, would you believe it was moral for them to keep capturing slaves from neighboring tribes and sacrificing them by the 1000's, or would you support an 'intervention and re-education program' by the U.S. Marines? Besides, when was the last time that any current Chrisitian used those passages to justify anything?
2) I agree that most of them were false accusations made by people who performed them because they were politically or personally convenient. The point was that Christianity isn't 'fundamentally' corrupt, since it clearly prohibits the bringing of false or unsupported accusations against absolutely anyone. Once the identification, enactment and enforcement of decent rules of evidence in court cases began, the witch trials dried up rather rapidly.
3) Check out the life of Mohammed, compare to the life of Christ. If the difference isn't obvious, then check out the differences in the expected norms of behavior towards kaffirs and Muslims in Islam. If you can't see the difference, then we have nothing to discuss.
The point I was trying to make is, Christianity is the true religion of peace.
If even Christians are so easily led astray by Satan into violence and murder, how much easier is it for Muslims to fall under his spell?
At the core, we have more in common with Islam then we realize. We worship the same god, and fear the same devil- we just call them different names.
As a Muslim friend of mine put it, "The terrorists think they do the work of Allah- but they serve Shaithen instead."
Think about it- who wants a war between Christians and Muslims that will spread over half the planet? Who wants Christians to hate their neighbors, and forget Jesus' teachings of peace and love? Whose tools are fear, lies, mistrust and hatred? Not God, that's for sure.
When Jesus admonished us to love our enemy as ourselves, he meant it.