the nature of islam

Submitted by john killebrew (United States), Jul 28, 2005 at 22:54

Throughout history islam has been spread through war and at the point of a sword. Read the quoran (I have). They view that forcing a Christian to convert saves him and does honor to G_D. If they refuse to convert and choose death instead they don"t go to hell but serve as slaves in heaven, which is preferable to hell. Jews don't require conversion as they are "the people of the book". They worship the true G_D, the G_D of Abraham. I don"t understand the animosity Muslims show towards Jews unless it"s the fact that Jews don't feel its necesary to convert Christians nor like Muslims that Christian's are at heart pagans for elevating a man [Jesus] to the status of G_D. All fundamentalist Muslims goal is to convert the world to the worship of the one true G_D. .Their life long history shows their prefered method is violence and coercsion...

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