I don';t think we have been too tolerant at all. I think we all have the right to shout from the rooftops how awful and sexist many of us think all religions are which we don't have in most muslim lands sadly. Let us hope we can ensure the Saudis let me one day write there what I can write on mumsnet and even let me drive a car or show my body and even inherit the same sum as a man would.
People can believe as they like but we need to fight hard to maintain our rights of free speech including rights for people whose views we dislike whether that be holocaust denial or sexist views. We should be just as free to say blacks should inherit less than whites in the same way the Muslims say women should inherit half of what men do. Yet we tolerate the islamic sexism in ways we would not if we substituted colour for sex. We need to be consistent.
As for death for those who reject their faith that has hardly been out of the news recently - in Somalia - Mariam or whatever she was called.
"Apostasy in Islam (Arabic: ???? riddah, literally means: "relapse" or "regress" but usually translates to "apostasy", or ?????? irtid?d) is commonly defined in Islam as the rejection in word or deed of one's former religion (apostasy) by a person who was previously a follower of Islam. Islamic scholarship differs on the appropriate punishment for the apostate (or murtad ???? ), which ranges from execution – based on an interpretation of certain hadiths – to no punishment at all as long as they do not rebel against the Islamic society or religion.[1] A significant minority of contemporary Muslim scholars (and twelve Muslim-majority countries[2] hold to the traditional view that apostasy is punishable by death or imprisonment until repentance, at least for adult men of sound mind.[3][4][5]"
My post about apostasy was censored above. Presumably the wiki post above will not be which says twelve whole muslim majority countries believe in death if you reject Islam - that is twelve countries, not 12 mad men. It is a massive amount and something we all need to work against whether atheist or muslim or any other religion. In fact it says 13 here:
"There Are 13 Countries Where Atheism Is Punishable by Death". The Wire. Retrieved 24 July 2014. "The countries that impose these penalties are Afghanistan, Iran, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, United Arab Emirates and Yemen. With the exception of Pakistan, those countries all allow for capital punishment against apostasy, i.e., the renunciation of a particular religion. Pakistan, meanwhile, imposes the death penalty for blasphemy, which can obviously include disbelief in God."