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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (217215)8/27/2007 12:52:28 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 793755
 
We were talking about Islam today, not 1000 years ago. I will freely admit that Islam was more tolerant than Christianity 1000 years ago. However, even then, it was not what we would recognize as 'tolerance' today, but consisted of subjecting non-Muslims to degraded conditions and special taxes to a) elevate Muslims over non-Muslims, as required by Sharia, and b) to pressure non-Muslims to convert, which many did.

Religious texts may be ink blot texts, but no bellicose Christian is going to find such easy pickings in the New Testament as a Muslim will in the Koran. Mohammed was a warlord who led a campaign of conquest, and there are loads of bellicose instructions in the Koran. Jesus was not a warlord, did not lead an army, and instructed his followers that his kingdom was not of this earth.
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