For 1,300 years, Islam showed remarkable tolerance to Jews and Christians. Until quite recently, Islam had a far better record of tolerance for religious minorities than had Christianity. As any record of the lives of north African Christians and Jews from the last 1,000 years will show, while their lives may not have been perfect, serious religious persecution was unknown. That said, the primary ally of the United States of America in the Middle East is a country which suppresses all manifestations of Judaism or Christianity in the name of Islam, a religion it uses to sustain an oligarchy that is corrupt to the core.