A lot of the posts here look very much like bile and hatred to me. "Serve them right" is the mindset of bigots.

For most of its history Islam has been represented by relative tolerance - as reflected by the survival of sizeable Christian minorities throughout the Middle East, which have been there since long before the time of Mohammed.

Persecution is evil, and is not in fact consistent with Islam any more than it is with Christianity. I don't know any Muslims who do not see it as shameful when this kind of thing is justified in the name of their religion.