Bingowings said:
The Turkish Empire was long lasting and had periods where it was more tolerant than Christian Imperial powers.
The Tudor Dynasty (Golden age, Shakespeare and all that) saw English monarchs oscillate between attacking various definitions of Christianity but it took a Stuart King to really kick off the burning of Cunning Folk.
People are by nature generally no good.
Their Governments project innocence but are equally duplicitous.
It's always been the way since the first civilisations in the Middle East.
Recent history has made our societies outwardly more welcoming of difference because our recent enemies were outwardly hostile. Not because it was good or the right thing to do because if that alone were enough we wouldn't have needed the civil rights movement.
The countries that define themselves as Islamic are rejecting the character of the societies that have offended them.
And in doing so cutting their nose off to spite their face but they do a lot of that sort of thing over there right?
That doesn't mean we should be like that, it means we should be even more tolerant of Muslims within our societies and not impose our ways on so called Islamic countries (most of which have their own relationships with each other anyway).
If we are not seen as 'the enemy' our good customs will be seen as less offensive and maybe even desirable.
Apostasy isn't a swear word in Christianity. In Islamic countries you can get killed for committing it. That's a real tolerant religion and culture?? Their ideology does not fit with modern, western society. It's fascism. No matter how much peace loving bullshit rhetoric their leaders spout. Everyone needs to fucking wake up.