Tolerance and Coercion

Submitted by Concerned European (Lithuania), Jan 12, 2007 at 06:32

[This system of peaceful living is supported in the Qu'ran in several places. From the time of the Holy Prophet, through the Umayyad, Abbasid to the Ottoman Empire the existence of Jews and Christians was not only tolerated but advocated under Shariah law. ]

A book about the tolerance in Islam which I would highly recommend to read is that of Yohanan Friedmann "Tolerance and Coercion in Islam: Interfaith Relations in the Muslim Tradition". The book of Friedmann is soundly based on Ahadith and Tafsir materials so that it would be very difficult for the Islamist propaganda to dismiss. There is a short review of this book by Daniel Pipes:

http://www.danielpipes.org/article/1681

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