Tolerance and intolerance: Islam and Europe

In a short section, Shakib Arslan presents his reply to a European book on tolerance. This is a presentation of the author's argument, not a ruling on the question. ¹

He mentions that the Europeans in the time of the Crusades were no less fanatical than the Turks in the time of the siege of Vienna in 1683. He points to what he attributes to the Crusaders at the taking of Jerusalem, and to what happened to the Muslims in al-Andalus and Sicily. ¹

He says that he does not wish to attribute bias to the author of the book, and that he counts him among the most fair of European writers, but he holds that the European overlooks these events. ¹

A further source is needed: the figures for these events need checking, and the name of the author of the book is not given in the data.