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Islam and the persuasive power of fear
American Thinker ^ | 24 Dec, 2023 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 12/25/2023 6:58:19 AM PST by MtnClimber

This is not a faith that conquers through persuasion, a fact we’re now seeing throughout the West.

Of the three great religions, Jews have been disinterested in converting people; Christ urged his disciples to spread his message through words and good deeds; and Mohamed told his followers to conquer the world with fire and sword. Since October 7, while we’re not seeing fire and sword in the West (yet), we’re certainly seeing standard Islamic efforts to intimidate the West into accepting Islam’s genocidal antisemitism and overall colonialist impulses.

Islam burst out of the Saudi desert in the 7th century A.D. Within one hundred years of Mohamed’s death, its reach had tripled in size, encompassing large parts of the modern Middle East and the northern coast of Africa, while making inroads into Spain. It increased all that territory in the next hundred years. One thousand years after Mohamed’s death, it controlled the entire Middle East, all of North Africa along with a sizable stretch of East Africa, along with large swaths of Central Europe, India, parts of Russia stretching into southern China, and the Malayan peninsula:

youtube: Spread of Islam

Almost none of this happened peacefully. Contrary to the myriad websites purporting to explain Islamic values of persuasion, Islam did not persuade, it conquered. A decade ago, Mike Konrad put together a tally of the death and destruction left in Islam’s wake:

- 80 million in India

- 110 million African blacks lost to the Muslim-controlled slave trade

- 1 million Europeans enslaved or slaughtered

- Uncounted millions in the Balkans and Southern Italy.

- Uncounted numbers during the conquest of Malaysia

And that’s just a partial list.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: islam; jihad
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To: Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi

I agree. They try to normalize sexual deviancy. The cult doesn’t belong in our society.

obama refers to the quran as the holy quran. There is nothing holy about it.


21 posted on 12/25/2023 6:12:19 PM PST by boycott
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