islam has the entire democrat media complex as their defense counsel.
Academia is worse. I attended an archaeology lecture a couple of years ago on the Moslem conquest of Cyprus and its change of cultures as shown by the material record.
After an hour or so of discussing much-reduced town outlines and slighted or destroyed churches, fortification schemes, and so on, I finally got to ask questions and so went for the money question: What happened to the pre-conquest population of Cyprus, much of which seems to have disappeared?
The answer, completely unavailable in Wiki by the way (yes, it's been munged into meaninglessness) is that the population, which in the 7th century was still majority-pagan, celebrating the ancient Greek (and Asian) rites, was slaughtered by the Arabs. The embarrassed lecturer told me, that it was deeply Not Done in modern academe, to admit that the Arabs slaughtered people like vermin, in their religious purging frenzies.
(Wiki tells us instead that for 300 happy years, Cyprus enjoyed a peaceful condominium of the Byzantine and Arab Empires. If you believe that one, I've got a nice mosque in south Florida that's just your size.) Much more pleasant (on the surface) to document the addition of qibla walls and mihrabs to former churches, or the rebuilding of large churches on much-reduced plans, and so forth, than to speak aloud about what happened to the unhappy people who were suddenly overwhelmed by the Religion of Peace.