[Noumenon]

You are correct - most people are completely ignorant of the true history of Islam: it's pagan origins, its history of conquest, atrocity, mass murder, and enslavement. Here are some excellent references concerning Islams history:

The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims (Andrew Bostom)

and

The Suicide of Reason: Radical Islam's Threat to the West (Lee Harris)

and

The Flight of the Intellectuals (Paul Berman)

The bottom line is that Islam is a serial murderer of entire cultures and peoples. Its death-cult mentality also happens to resonate with modern Leftists everywhere.

The corollary of the will to power, for which some of the Left is more powerful than any drug, is the desire to submit.

"He [Albert Camus] had noticed a modern impulse to rebel, which had come out of the French Revolution and the nineteenth century and had very quickly, in the name of an ideal, mutated into a cult of death. And the ideal was always the same, though each movement gave it a different name. It was not skepticism and doubt. It was the ideal of submission."
Paul Berman - Terror and Liberalism p46

Breathtaking, isn't it?

[bigheadfred]

most people are completely ignorant

You could have stopped right there.