All hail Neo-Ottomanism and the restoration of Sultan Erdogan!
At its zenith, the Ottoman Empire was a bastion of technological innovation and (relative) amounts of religious and cultural tolerance.
I know the point you're trying to make, but I just had to..... 
Latter part has some truth in the capital, but it was still an absolute theocracy with no concept of individual(as opposed to communal) rights in a western sense. Anyone could be killed at any moment for any reason, as opposed to say France, England, Austria, or even to some degree Russia where you at least needed a pretext. And in the provinces it was a demographic and economic disaster. Tax farming, lack of any sort of paid military presence, and the weakness of the center meant that banditry was endemic, and much of the Balkans was reduced to a desert. Hungary's population fell by almost two thirds in the century and a half of Ottoman rule.
