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Well, compared to Christianity for most of its history, mainstream Islam was a tolerant religion with no forced conversions and allowing Jews and Christians and "people of the book" to practice their religions if they paid a special tax because they were exempt from service in the armies of the Caliph. The problem with groups like ISIS is they are practicing extreme versions of Sunni Wahabism that are not mainstream Islam! ISIS and Al Qaida and the Taliban and such are religious extremists of the extreme variety...unfortunately that seems to have an appeal to a certain segment of the Islamic and especially Sunni Arab world. Religious nutbars will fuck up the world and unfortunately religious extremism is on the rise in all major world religions because they simply can't adjust to the modern world!