Conversion By Sword Quotes
This particular quotation is very important. Khomeini was probably the most influential Muslim in the 20th Century. The fact that he wrote this in 1942—before there was an Israel as an enemy—shows how deep seated the requirement for world conquest is. To the Nazi’s world conquest was a justifiable goal. To Khomeini and his many followers, it is a religious obligation and duty and thus is every more dangerous. Extreme anti Muslims justify the attempted expulsion of Muslim immigrants on the grounds that they are a fifth column whose loyalty is and will be to the religion which will attempt to conquer their country. It gives Islamaphobia a veneer of respectability.
Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus
While he fairly described the Spanish intentions, the reality which was not known at the time, was that most of the deaths in South America were caused by disease brought by the Spanish for which Europeans had some immunities and the natives of the New Word, none.
The Sultan, led 17 different military expeditions to India to spread the Muslim faith He is one of the few major conquerors of the world who was never defeated in Battle. He conquered the Lahore area and others of India that became Muslim and eventually became Pakistan. He was the first Islamic leader to bear the Title of Sultan demonstrating the separation of the civil power from the Caliph.
Jews were forced to convert to Catholicism under penalty of death. While the archbishop did not approve, he did not describe the murders in moral terms or used his great religious power to stop the practice.
There were times and places where the Ottoman Turks forced Islam upon conquered peoples. However, much of the time, they operated with a pragmatic tolerance so that they could govern smoothly. The non-Muslims were always second class citizens however. See {635095} for another example.
Like the other people’s of the ancient world, the Jews on several occasions murdered captives and pillaged cities who had resisted them, there was never an occasion where captive peoples were forced into Judaism or denied the worship of their customary religion.
In September of 2006 Pope Benedict XVI, quoted this statement in a lecture to theological students. There was much distress and protest among Muslim leaders.
These were the most terrible and restrictive laws against Jews who would be hunted down and forced to accept Christianity. The Visigothic laws were a combination of Visigothic tradition and the codification by Catholic Clerics. Many scholars have traced the terrible policies and practices against Jews by the Spanish throne and the Inquisition 500 years later to these earlier Spanish Visigoths and their formal legal structure. This is the most formalized and sophisticated compendium of laws of the so-called “barbaric peoples” of Europe. The compilation was in many ways a documentation of the traditional laws of the Visigoths that had evolved over hundreds of years.
There are many different schools of thought about Islamic Law just as there are many opnions on any legal system. However, amongst the otherox Muslims there are 5 major schools of Islamic jurispredence--4 are Sunni and 1 Shiite. These 5 all share an intolerance of other religions. The Prophet allolwed Christians, Jews and Zoroasstrians to worship in their religious manner but they had to pay a discriminatory tax. No such provision was made for other religions and some of the modern Muslims try to force them, under penalty of death, to convert to Islam. After the Iranian Revolution for example, members of the Bahai religion were mordered if they would not convert. Many were hunted down and butchered.
Oman was one of the first kingdoms to embrace Islam, albeit under the coercion described in this quotation.
