The lines are clearly drawn. War with Christians and Jews arrayed against the Muslim world is unavoidable. We're just seeing the barest beginnings of it now.........but mark my words, that is EXACTLY what this "war on terrorism" will evolve into. It'll be ugly, but maybe.......just maybe.......Islam will finally be relegated to the dustbin of history where it belongs.
Oh, and the vaunted Ottoman tolerance toward Jews and Christians was partly custom in that part of the world--there was toleration toward Jews, Manicheans, and Muslims in the (Eastern) Roman Empire before its conquest--and partly necessity--the interpretation of Islamic law they applied meant that banking, printing and some other activities needed to run anything like a functional society had to be done by non-Muslims.