Whomsoever pointed out what sweeping generalizations about the Islamic world we are attempting to foist off as the whole story is SPOT ON CORRECT.
We can no more generalize about the various Islamic empires and their policies, than we can generalize about the history of Europe over the last 1300 years.
SOMETIMES Islam nations and empires were most tolerant, and other times they were not.
But to deny that Islam's stupdendous advances were not at least in part the result of the scimitar is of course nonsense, too.
AT one point in time every Mediteranian nation was Chrisitian.
It took the armies to change that, folks.
We can no more generalize about the various Islamic empires and their policies, than we can generalize about the history of Europe over the last 1300 years.
SOMETIMES Islam nations and empires were most tolerant, and other times they were not.
But to deny that Islam's stupdendous advances were not at least in part the result of the scimitar is of course nonsense, too.
AT one point in time every Mediteranian nation was Chrisitian.
It took the armies to change that, folks.