When he first started out, he was kind of 'funny'...

Unfortunately, that was a long time ago.

HTH

1. Those who take it seriously and live it out. They are the dangerous ones.
2. Those who take it seriously and don't live it out. They root for the dangerous ones, pray for them and send them money.
3. Those who don't take it seriously and don't live it out. They are afraid of #1 and #2 above, so they just keep their mouths shut and duck their heads. They will not actively oppose the nuts. In doing so, the turn it all over to the nuts and nut supporters.

As well, the Spanish Jews, Muslims,and Christians in the lower half of the country apparently enjoyed an intellectual mutual Renaissance of learning around 900AD [date is speculative due to my porous memory] They were co-operating on translations of ancient documents of learning that were still available at that time, and benefiting the arts of medicine and science, as well as philosophy. Then deep desert fanatic tribes crossed the Mediterranean and sweet North, religiously purging and destroyed all 'impious & infidel' learning.

As with all history, it is interesting to speculate upon the possible turns and futures that may happened, had other paths been followed by the Followers. Perhaps the world did not have to be saddled with a minority bunch of violently apocalyptic murderous, torturing crazoids. The Muslim families I knew while growing up, and even into adulthood, were well assimilated, and apparently quite unconcerned about the Old World Medieval Politically Correctness that now seems to rule that community. The were , so far I was aware, Americans and hard-working first..and Muslims secondarily. And probably damn well happy to be shed of the Old World mullah-nut cases, and primitive mountain barbarians that now are claiming Rulership.

My wife and I first ran into this Intolerance, at a symposium down at Ohio State University, to hear the 'papers' being presented by new grad students. The details aren't necessary to relate. However, the 'religion of peace' took a dump into the ground floor of an outhouse, so far as we were concerned.

In January of 1973, I spent a week of study at the Henry Martyn Institute of Islamic Studies in Hydrabad India, trying to get a good grasp on the religion of islam. I found nothing in that time, that made me admire or respect that belief system. That has been 40 years and I still feel the same way. At the time, I thought is was just an academic exercise and would not be a present danger to myself, my country and those I love. I was wrong about that!

The long and short of it, the followers of any religion can't rise any higher than their founding guy. Do a quick study of Mohammed and Jesus and you will see why they are like they are and why Christians are like they are. This video shows Mohammed's religious DNA centuries after his death.