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Answer is no.
Or mostly no. But what keeps us from telling the world is not those horrible things in the past, nor it is these few misconceptions today. We ourselves are too scared - too terrified of the chance that everyone will abandon us because of our faith. It seems better to keep quiet about it. But it is not the answer.