Charles Martel - The battle of tours

[Randarkmaan]

He didn't say that they had such a nice time, though it wasn't constant and brutal persecution, it was varying degrees depending on how the "general mood" was among Muslims, though they were usually encouraged to convert to Islam, like other Christians. Much like the later colonial European powers did, sometimes it was convert or die, sometimes they were tolerated and allowed to keep their faith, but they were always "reminded" of the advantages of converting to (or as people then would say "accepting") Christianity.
With the Copts it definately was not convert or die, though... why do you think there are still about 10 million of them? And Islam only became the majority religion in Egypt towards the 13th century (Most Egyptians were Christians before that). That's nearly 600 years after they were conquered. Ofcourse there was religious persecution; sometimes brutal, "The Mad Caliph" Al-Hakim was particularily... mad, he even destroyed the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (and was later condemned by his successors who rebuilt it together with the Byzantines, the Druze religion began as a sort of sect around Al-Hakim claiming he was the Mahdi), though most of the time the persecution was more subtle. Though obviously noticeable by the Copts and irritating in their personal, and professional lives.

And Kartlos, Muslims are not the evil of the world, they're simply just as capable of being evil as any other humans, people should try to get rid of their "us versus them" attitude.