Religious Dominance Quotes
Ahmad denied saying this although the reporter who wrote the original story insists that he did and she wrote it down at the time. Ahmad did not deny the statement when it first appeared in the Fremont Argus, but only did so several years later.
While the vast majority of Muslims had little or no thought of Islam ruling or even dominating the non-Muslim part of the world. But of the minority of the Islamic Religious Extremists, most saw a struggle with the Christians, Jews, and other religions of the world until Islam ruled the world—an outcome which most saw as inevitable.
1st Viscount Bolingbroke. This is the argument that was and still is given by most theocracies and nations opposed to pluralism. It was also a quotation which with the American founders were familiar and were targeting this view when they demanded the 1st Amendment.
Christian sentiments like this were common during The Crusades where God would cause Christianity to prevail. However, with the Reformation, the enlightenment, the industrial revolution, and modernity, most Christians became more tolerant of other religions and accepting of the fact that there are other religions, which while not valid, would co-exist with Christianity. Islam backward and left out of the forces that modernized Christian nations entered the 21st century with large numbers of Muslims who believe in the literal truth of this sura and its desirability and their personal duty to help make it happen.
