Ask the Balkans and they will tell you what Jihad did to them

Submitted by ashar khokhar (United Kingdom), Jun 22, 2005 at 16:47

Any one wants to know and understand about the concept and ideology of Jihad. What he or she needd to do is travel to Balkans and ask them what was happening to them before the Europeans forced Ottomons and other rulers in the Middle East to start treating non Muslim equally and provide them all the rights and facilities as it were provided to the Muslims. Read the letters and reports of the representatives of different European empires of that time, and one does not have to wait a long time to know what Jihad means to Muslims and what it does to non Muslims.

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