Thats funny that you mention that. Go into any academic setting and you will find professors talk and talk about the dark ages of europe and how Christianity was exclusive. They will point out how it gave special privelages to the cleric class, how it denied education to the average person, how it forcefully converted people, how it discouraged science in order to preserve its own power, and how it excluded undesirables like women in the church. As well, those same egg-heads will portray medieval Islam as "tolerant" treating their dhimmi with respect. The fact that they're parroting revisionist Islamic history and whitewashing the perpetual Jihads and the destruction of Eastern Christianity tells you a lot about the state of our institutes of lower learning.
They are institutions of lower learning. BTW, I love your post of "I wonder why?".