Actually, no finti. Eye for an eye comes from Babylonian ancient law passed by Hammurabi, law better known as Lex Talionis.
It has next to nothing to do with the bible.
I never read the bible, but i believe that bible preaches that if someone does something wrong to you, you turn the other cheek. That doesnt mean that everyone follows, however.
Im not religious person, if anything, im Buddhist, but I fail to see how direct attack on Christianity is explaining ''is Islam holding Arab Nations Back'' debaite.
Its absolutely wrong to drag crusades into this conversation, because such things as Ottoman empire should be talked about all the same. Just because it didnt affect your history it doesnt mean it didnt happen.
I dont think it matters what happened in the past, I think the debaite is asking wether the Arab Countries are held back by Islam today.
Also debaiting on whos crazier Christians or Muslims is also just a dumb, it has nothing to do with the argument, and it is well known that all religious nuts, regardless of their religion are as bad as each other.
People use religion to go to war, its a well known fact, and it isnt the first time it happened. Christians have done some nasty thigs to their people they believed were witches, or those who opposed or any kind of different people were blamed for all the wrongs, no one denies that.
But the one upside to Christian countries in the west, is that unlike in Arabic countries, homosexuals are not publicly stoned to death.
This was brought on by those religious nuts who get in power and pass dumb laws.
Then again, America is a Christian country, and the only one in the whole industrialized world that still enforces capital punishment.