Yep, people select their information sources to go in their direction.
I mean if you listen to Faux News, some parts of Paris were no go zones as well.
There is no doubt that in some places, communities tried to establish their own rules, or some protested for things.
But like for "Chistian" bells (Well, no other major religion in europe have religious places with bells); some people protested against them. It's even a common thing that you see popping in the news multiple time here a year (mostly when online news have nothing else to feed their colums in one hour).
Rampant Muslim invasion? Nope, just some jerks moving from larger cities to more "quiet" and rural places and being bothered because the first bell ring at 7H during Sunday (because you know, that church wasn't here when they bough their house).
And sure enough, if you remove all the Pierre Dupont and Maurice Durand from the list of protesters you'll eventually found an Abdul Alhazred and you can claim "Muslims wanna destroy the church".
And about the Koran being mysoginic... It's about the same in the Torah/Old Testament, and only slightly less worse in the New Testament.
Of course today such things aren't as enforced in Christianity as they were once, but they were.
Not even mentionning the bloody war between Christians themselves, exactly what is going on with the Sunnnites and the Chiites today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Bartholomew's_Day_massacrehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Calashttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-Jean_de_la_Barre(and that's only events that I heard of in school... I'm sure you can quote lots more things from other European countries... and even the USA, like the Salem Witch Trial.)
I mean :
Regarding Jean-Francois Lefebvre, chevalier de La Barre, we declare him convicted of having taught to sing and sung impious, execrable and blasphemous songs against God; of having profaned the sign of the cross in making blessings accompanied by foul words which modesty does not permit repeating; of having knowingly refused the signs of respect to the Holy Sacrament carried in procession by the priory of Saint-Pierre; of having shown these signs of adoration to foul and abominable books that he had in his room; of having profaned the mystery of the consecration of wine, having mocked it, in pronouncing the impure terms mentioned in the trial record over a glass of wine which he held in his hand and then drunken the wine; of having finally proposed to Petignat, who was serving mass with him, to bless the cruets while pronouncing the impure words mentioned in the trial record.
In reparation of which, we condemn him to make honorable amend, in smock, head bare and a rope around his neck, holding in his hands a burning candle of two pounds before the principal door of the royal church... of Saint-Wulfram, where he will be taken in a tumbrel by the executioner who will attach before and behind him a sign on which will be written, in large letters impious one; and there, being on his knees, will confess his crimes...; this done, will have the tongue cut out and will then be taken in the said tumbrel to the public marketplace of this city to have his head cut off on a scaffold; his body and his head will then be thrown on a pyre to be destroyed, burnt, reduced to ashes and these thrown to the wind.
Merely 10 years before the American independance, you could be legally killed for shouting obscenities to a piece of wood and to a glass of wine ( ! )
Now this doesn't excuse at all the acts of terrorists, but it's a reminder of what our civilization was at, merely 250 years ago. And that what made Christianity being what it is now, didn't come FROM the Church, but from the societies it lives in(I feel a slippery slope coming here).
If things had been different, maybe we'd be of Muslim confession and Christians would be a group of raging terrorists in Middle east.
Religion is just a lever used by power hungry groups that like to see their name making the world shake in fear.
