Criticizing Islam is racist?

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I would also look for persons like Avicenna, where he came from and what he stood for. Also compare the treatment of jews in the Islamic realms to their treatment in christian Europe.

That last point is very salient. Jews were persecuted more than people like to think in Europe for pretty much the entire reign of Christendom. Christians and Jews were actually treated very well under some Islamic regimes in the ME in centuries gone by.

It's ironic really that those wishing to re-establish the Caliphate in the ME now imagine a system which is actually centuries backwards from the Caliphates of old in terms of social and scientific advancement. Not to say the region didn't have its barbarity back then however because it obviously did.