[Aquinasfan]

that the civilizational problem is that Islam has not accepted religious tolerance

At last the heart of the problem. When Mohammedanism becomes tolerant it will cease to be Mohammedanism.

[JasonC]

Men said that of Catholicism, but they were wrong. It ceased to be intolerant long ago, without ceasing to be Catholicism. Because it contained within itself the seeds of correction. There are such seeds in Islamic civilization. Indeed, some of ours came from some of theirs, as your screen name suggests to me just now, but that is a long story.