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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.

I doubt that you know enough History to be making such a statement as you made to Sparta. By the way, I disagree with your whole thesis that the West was more intolerant than Islam. Does that mean that I have the right to call you ignorant? NO, it just means that I interpret History differently than you do.