Edited sentence: For Christians and Muslims alike, tolerance is a new virtue, intolerance a new crime.For the greater part of the history of both communities, tolerance was not valued nor was intolerance condemned.The charge that was always brought against Islam was not that its doctrines were imposed by force- something seen as normal and natural- but that its doctrines were false.Until comparatively modern times, Christian Europe neither prized nor practiced tolerance itself, and was not greatly offended by its absence in others