Umm, nice effort man, but umm, the early ottoman and Spanish Muslim empires in all fairness, did NOT live in harmony with other people. I duno if you’ve ever heard those little bitty events called the crusades. Besides, why are you so conscious of people labeling you of being what majority of us ARE, back where we came from. Why don’t we see Jewish kids raging until their neck veins pop out trying to say “I AM NOT CONSPIRING TO OWN THE WORLD, AND I AM NOT CHEAP OR BUY STUFF ONLY IN SALES, AND NEITHER AM I REALLY GOOD AT FINANCES AND I DON’T TELL JOKES ALL THE DAMN TIME. I LOVE ISRAEL AND THERE’S NO SHAME ABOUT IT, AND I WEAR A SKULL CAP WITHOUT THINKING WHAT PEOPLE WILL SAY ABOUT IT, AND I AM A JEW!!”
Think about it.
In addition, Muslims don’t drive taxis or work at gas stations because their faith says so, but because they are new immigrants and on the lower wings of the economies in most of the modern western world. You are a Muslim and you do all those cool, non-traditional, non-obnoxious things because of your American upbringing, not because anywhere in Islam it is mandatory to do or to refrain from doing those things. Since you dug up all those facts from history, did you also see how new immigrants in Muslim renaissance era states lived? I’ll tell you how they lived. In our sharia laws, non Muslims, called Dhimmis, are third class citizens. They can’t own land; they can’t marry among Muslims or preach their religion. They sure can practice it but nowhere near where Muslims do. In fact, in Pakistan where I grew up, eating and drinking with Christians is taboo because they’re considered dirty, or as we say, Napaak. But again, that’s Sharia law, and not Quran, and that’s Pakistani custom, not Islamic custom.
All I am saying is, stop being pissed off about petty things, and do something to better educate your brethren so they don’t make fools out of themselves.
p.s. The guy who said Taj Mahal was not built by Muslims, The chief architect’s name was Eissa, and he was a Muslim guy from Multan.
