So, first we lump together a massive area of land from the borders of China Morocco and state that they are all somehow the same. I imagine that by the same light they all peacefully converted to Islam

Right, the crusades. They were to retake the Holy Land. Remember that christianity was around BEFORE Islam. So they attacked. Revelation I know. And the conquest of the Balklands and Spain by the Muslims appears to also have been ignored.

Then we appear to sidestep the fact that the Middle East has had despots since at least 500BC!!!

"Better to remain silent and for people to think you are ignorant than to speak and for peple to know you are"