User blog comment:Draugluin the werewolf/This guy on youtube, why do I even bother./@comment-25356210-20170110035624/@comment-27097330-20170112032307

Although the rapid Islamic rise to power was violent, it wasn't more so than anything else at the time. And after things had calmed down, Christians in most Muslim controlled areas actually had quite a few rights. THey had to pay a tax, and some of the social standing rights they did not have to he same as Muslims but in general they had basic rights and weren't slaughtered in communities. They were actually allowed to visit pilgrimage sites, and even interfaith marriages were actually not unheard of. Although frontier conditions were bad for pilgrims, that was not a matter of the Islamic state actually persecuting them but more the fact that the road to Jerusalem simply wasn't safe, and nothing was done about it. Sucks yeah, but I don't think it really warrants mass genocide.