I REALLY wanted to stay out of this...
Odd... last time I checked, we were at a significant military disadvantage before the start of the crusades...
The state of "dhimi" wastypically a negotiated less-than-total surrender, somewhere between being ransomed, and being property. It was usually only offered when the military cost of conquering the "infidel" was high enough that such a negotiated settlement made sense - otherwise, it was convert or die.
> Further, those few incidences were for "people of the Book" - Christians and Jews. You conveniently leave out how OTHER religions were treated - IF they were allowed to live at all.<
And this is followed by:
>It was a few MONTHES ago that an Afghan man was threatened with DEATH for converting to Christianity. Christians are still being sold into slavery or kidnapped for ransom by Muslims today in Africa.<
Ummm... incoherant much? What did/do Muslims do to those not "of the book"?
There is a difference under Islamic law as to how a conquered person who happens to have always been Jewish or Christain is treated, and how a Muslim who converts to one of those religions is treated - kind of like hte difference between an enemy POW and a traitor. Not saying it makes sense, just observing.
>Islam is a bloodsoaked religion of conquest with its roots in pagan moon worship<
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over? By all means, give some evidence for this one!
"Was Allah The Moon God of Ancient Arab Pagan?
By Syed Kamran Mirza
Historical evidences, impartial logic, well versed references and all available circumstantial judgments can very well prove that(a) Allah name of deity was pre-existed much before the arrival of Islam, (b) Pre-Islamic Pagan peoples worshipped Allah as their supreme deity (moon-god). Allahs name existed in pre-Islamic Arab. In ancient Arab the Allah was considered to be the supreme God/deity (as Moon-God) and Arab Pagans worshipped Allah before Islam arrived.
Let us examine below some valid questions and answers :
Did the Pagan Arabs in pre-Islamic times worship 360 gods? Yes
Did the pagans Arabs worship the sun, moon and the stars? Yes
Did the Arabs built temples to the Moon-god? Yes
Did different Arab tribes give the Moon-god different names/titles? Yes
What were some of the names/titles? Sin, Hubul, Ilumquh, Al-ilah.
Was the title al-ilah (the god) used as the Moon-god? Yes
Was the word Allah derived from al-ilah? Yes
Was the pagan Allah a high god in a pantheon of deities? Yes.
Was he worshipped at the Kabah? Yes.
Was Allah only one of many Meccan gods? Yes
Did they place a statue of Hubul on top of the Kabah? Yes.
At that time was Hubul considered the Moon-god? Yes.
Was the Kabah thus the house of the Moon-god? Yes.
Did the name Allah eventually replace that of Hubul as the name of the Moon god? Yes.
Did they call the Kabah the house of Allah? Yes.
Were al-Lat, al-Uzza and Manat called the daughters of Allah? Yes.
Yusuf Ali explains in fn. 5096, pg. 1445, that Lat, Uzza and Manat were known as the daughters of God [Allah]
Did the Quran at one point tell Muslims to worship al-Lat, al-Uzza and Manat? Yes. In Surah 53:19-20.
Have those verses been abrogated out of the present Quran? Yes.
What were they called? The Satanic Verses."
>they are at war with anything NOT Islam<
Ok... gotta give you that one...
>always have been (unless forced not to by superior might), and always will be.<
Ummm... no. Nice try though...
The Qu'oran spells it out as clearly as Mien Kampf outlined Hitler's plans....