My meaning was unclear. I meant Christian countries not Christianity as such where there is separation of Church and State and where the State sets the laws. In most Christian countries the State pays scant regard to the Church when running the legal, political and administrative systems.
I did not want to advocate Christianity by making this point - merely point out that Islamic countries even when run by a State political aparatus are constrained to observe Islamic standards because of the power of Islam within society. The State pays much regard to Islam when running the legal, political and administrative systems, just as the European State did with the Catholic Church in the past.
Democracy in Islamic countries tends to bend towards Islam because of the virulence of the religion. Islam is still a way of life and control of life, whereas Christianity has become more just a faith and a lobby.
Personally I would like to see Islam's controlling back broken and Islam relegated to the status of being freely optional for the believers, not a life sentence as it is now. The State whether democratic or totalitarian is capable of evolution whereas Islam is rooted in the past and can barely tolerate change, always being pulled back to the word of the Prophet, the Quran and hadiths.
When you consider how flaky the basis for any religion is, to adopt any religion as a way of life and law with compulsion attached, is a denial of mankind's major attribute - adaptability.
