"-this could be an islamic view of christianity. Too free spirited, free minded, free in general. However they stay amused rather than spitefull or opressive."

Nice idea, but you're subscribing to the idea fed to you by the media that Islam is some sort of totalitarian religion based on blind submission. Islam has free will too; my Qur'an is not on me at the moment, but there's a verse that says "We (God often speaks in the plural) could have made all of mankind Muslim if we had wanted to."