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Maybe not, but they certainly sacrifice other people's lives in order to putatively spread them, with Iraq and Libya being just the latest examples. I've argued before that, far from being polar opposites, in many ways the West and the Islamic world are actually two sides of the same coin: even leaving aside the shared Abrahamic origins of both Christianity and Islam (though I think that may be one reason behind their similarities anyway), both are driven by universalistic, absolutist and messianic ideas about humanity, that what is right in their own societies and cultures must be right in all societies and cultures, no exceptions made. Thus it is no accident that most of the world's major empires over the last few centuries have come from these two sources. The main difference is that the West has secularised many of its formerly religious beliefs, whereas many people in the Islamic world maintain the same religious vigour as before.
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