It's true, but there are deeper reasons.stui magpie wrote:^
Bingo.
The 'reform" of Christianity happened because of the clear separation between the church and the state in western society. Under islam, once it gets a foothold, the church becomes the state, no such separation.
Key difference.
Firstly, Britain does not separate the Church and state. It has an established church, the Monarch is the head of the CofE, and bishops sit in the House of Lords. Yet it is an intensely tolerant country which has provided a haven for other religions for the last two and a half centuries. The culture in which a religion has grown makes a difference to the way it is expressed, as long as the theology and texts of the religion allow for such compromises (i.e. they do not explicitly inveigh against it).
Secondly, the reform of Christianity came from within, with the rise of Protestantism and its repudiation of absolute authority, in favour of individual conscience in light of scripture. Whilst I was raised (very mildly) as a Catholic, it is to Protestantism that Christianity owes its relatively accommodative, "separate" stance. It is arguably a degraded kind of Protestant virtue-seeking that animates the barren parades of modern progressives.
To argue that Islam will inevitably follow the same course as Christianity did is a statement of very crude historical hubris.