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I don't understand why Christianity is pitted against Islam to make it seem superior, however.
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You got it backwards, Islam pits itself against every other religion and pagan on the face of the planet - it’s Islamic Law - all other religions are abrogated by Islam.
w4.1 THE FINALITY OF THE PROPHET’S MESSAGE (from a1.5)
(2) Previously revealed religions were valid in their own eras, as is attested to by many verses of the holy Koran, but were abrogated by the universal message of islam, as is equally attested to by many verses in the Koran…
…it is unbelief (kufr) to hold that the remnant cults now bearing the names of formerly valid religions, such as “Christianity” or “Judaism,”…
(3) islam is the final religion that allah most high will never lessen or abrogate until the last day.
(Pgs. 846-848 - The Reliance of the Traveler: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law)
What happens for the professing kufr you may ask?
o4.17 There is no indemnity obligatory for killing a non-muslim…
(see pgs 593-598 - The Reliance of the Traveler: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law)
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