Except those countries and eras of majority Islamic nations which have been peaceful?, particularly during the time when Europe was embroiled in that whole Dark Ages thing. To say that Islam is an axiomatic font of intolerance and suppression is to ignore the people, the political entities, which wield the power of religious institution and mobilization toward the ends of autocracy or terror. And the historical preconditions that allow them to flourish. We've seen this time and time again. There's a reason the leaders of these terrorist or radical groups are usually found to be massive hypocrites in their private lives. No room for self-examination exists, because the puritan disease is neat, simple, pure. Reductivism always is.
