Dude what is with this pervasive and ridiculously shortsighted notion that islam is just a younger version of Christianity? It's like the 20 year old CE intellectual's idea that he thinks is some sort of revolutionary epiphany that despite the two religions being almost diametrically opposed in so many of their most base tenets (and not to mention the DRAMATIC differences in the nature, personality, life and /depiction/ of their respective founders).
Just literally pick up the new testament and koran and open them and read. OR you can literally use wiki.
I won't even make the argument concerning how one religion (Islam) aggressed on the other (Christendom) in the name of the religion FIRST, and multiple times before the Crusades. (The Crusades being the reddit/gamefaqs armchair expert's favorite argument against their mean dad's birth religion.)
Jews don't exactly practice the beliefs of the Old Testament either, so your point is kind of moot.
Jews have a lot of holy works outside of the torah and their religion has sects and leaders that are given a lot of creative freedoms, w regards to customs and rules etc. Talmud is definitely something you should take a look at, a lot of talmudic scholars have said some ALARMING things that are now pretty much codified in the religion (at least by certain groups therein). Please research further.
I'm fully aware of Talmud. But that doesn't change the fact that the majority of Judaism's practitioners don't interfere or even attempt to interfere with modern society to any significant degree.
Are you serious? There's literally a new mostly artificial jewish country out of no where, carved out of her majesty's palestine mandate, through political interference by european jewish politicians inspired by european jewish intellectuals... and is now at least cited as the source for a lot of muslim outrage.
I was referring more to interfering with the beliefs of modern, secular societies (since that's what we're talking about when people talk about Islamic reformation), not the political workings of Israel's birth.
If it helps, I'm also not a huge fan of Israel's reemergence as a country. ---