Theos-Talk Archives (January 2007 Message tt00416)

When Moors were ruling Spain, they had a tax on non-moslems. So from tax
revenue point, there was no incentive to convert the non-moslems into
moslems. So there are exceptions to the rule I guess.

mkr

On 1/27/07, Scribe <scribe@rs.org> wrote:
>
>   Hi, Konstantin:
>
> Thank you for your kind reply.
>
> Re: "She and her husband, who is an arab from Syria, also said the same
> thing about jihad and also that Quran doesn't approve violent
> conversion to Islam."
>
> My reading of history and the Quran is that Islam specifically spread by
> said "convert or die" methods. Muhammad would still be an unknown camel
> caravan bandit if he hadn't written that clause into his book, as well as
> several others glorifying theft, murder, rape and intolerance.
>
>


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