I disagree actually. For example, as a Jew I think its actually fair to say that the Torah, Talmud, and Midrash are fairly violent, draconian, and primitive codes of law and morality. However is Judaism violent? No because we went on a different historical arc that cut the tether to the ancient interpretations and practition of our faith. The diaspora and legal prohibitions forced a reliance on literacy, while perpetual minority status dampened the legislative aggressiveness of rabbinical courts and interpretation. Lack of a physical Israel shifted theological discussions away from law, justice, politics, and war, and toward familial and social considerations. I could go on and on. The reason I bring it up is that I believe Judaism and Islam are actually fairly similar religions, moreso than Christianity in that the point of both faiths in their original and orthodox form is to proscribe a code for living and governing every facet of life from cradle to government to the grave. I believe it is fair to say that Islam is more 'violent' because while Judaism shed its adherence or shifted its emphasis away from portions of this perspective (including in Orthodoxy which lack a state to control, but see the worst parts of Israel for an example of my point) Islam has not. The orthodoxy of Islam is generally unreformed and this remains a serious problem since it is less amenable to liberalization and reform. Why? Because how do you reform a divinely directed legal code? Anyways as I said before I think it is a problem to try and equivocate because it obscures very real and very significant problems and discussions.