Christianity and Islam are not only ideas, they are ways of life. And the conduct of one towards another has to be evaluated in light of what they believe.
I find the Qur’an is more about defense than offense… except towards unbelievers. The Qur’an specifically states that not all Christians are unbelievers. Actually, what would make them unbelievers is if they attacked Muslims first.
How can you say that islam is more about defense than offense when they start most of the violence during mohammed’s time? In the over 80+ battles and razas (raids) only one was for defensive purposes. mohammed realized the value of conversion by the sword - and its profits via booty and slaves - so did it quite often. At some point he realized that keeping the people alive would be profitable if they accepted subjugation so they can not only do the work that muslims didn’t want to do, but also pay the jizya tax.
And that is why since mohammed’s time the violence, the imperialistic nature of islam, has progressed like the tides of an ocean - progressing onwards. They got quite a bit of territory in the 20th century - much of Southeast Asia, Africa, Lebanon, quite a bit of Eastern Europe, Pakistan - and they are currently working on getting Kashmir, parts of the Philippines, the Gaza - and in all those areas they basically want all of it but will fool those who give up land into thinking there will be peace if they get what they want.
It is called hudna. no peace can last longer than 10 years and should be broken at any time when muslims are regrouped/rearmed. We see that so very clearly in the ME and in the Gaza and Lebanon - in some cases the muslims’s promise to keep peace barely lasted a day before they started lobbing rockets into Israel.
No, there is no defense in islam except the part to continually intimidate us to shut up about it so their image is not tarnished. They don’t want us to tell the truth so many have had lawsuits, intimidation, etc.
An example is Geert wilders and Denmark. Look at what the muslims do to them. The complete arrogance of muslims of other countries to order another country to squash their freedom of speech or else they will continue to kill them. Then they do some more killings of people in an embassy. Embassys are easy targets for them. Instead of respecting the embassadors of other countries - they bomb them. It happened in Beirut in the 1980s, and many times thereafter.