[MoGalahad]

So the pot calls the kettle black! Since when did you become an expert on Islamic culture or are you just parroting the party line?

[billybudd]

I'm not sure what you're referring to if you don't paste a quote. Also, I'm not sure what "party line" you're referring to. I never claimed to be an expert on Islamic culture. But I do know enough about history to know that the statement that "the West was traditionally tolerant and Islam was traditionally intolerant" is a bunch of Barbara Streisand. That is such an oversimplification spanning such a long period of time that it makes the statement meaningless. If anything, the West was more intolerant than Islam in the past. It is only in the past couple of hundred years that the West has become tolerant in any meaningful way.