&gt;<i>What&#x27;s your point? That Islamic terrorism is compatible with open society because of a bunch of things were done to them over the past thousand years?</i><p>The question in the thread wasn&#x27;t whether &quot;islamic terrorism&quot; was compatible with open society, but whether islam itself is.<p>And my point it, whether it is or not, that &quot;open society&quot; is not as &quot;open&quot; as it pretends to be either.<p>If some family had done &quot;a bunch of things&quot; (of enslaving, torturing and murderous nature) to your family &quot;over the past thousand years&quot;, would you see them as friends? Especially if they continued those things in one way or another up to today, while celebrating how &quot;open&quot; and &quot;tolerant&quot; they are, (as opposed to you, who hates them).