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[ApplegateRanch]

Somehow, that seems like a familiar argument, also from the Sand Lands...let me see if I can remember how it goes.

Oh, yes; got it!

...if you didn't do as you were told convert to Islam, you were either killed, driven out into the desert, denied food, or officially enslaved. So, IOW, you had a choice. See? Not slavery compulsion of religion.

Sometimes, no matter how different things are, they are still the same...celebrating 5,000 years of "freedom" in Egypt, this is what memorial Day is about?

Oh, and lest we forget, Ezek 29:15

15 It [Egypt] shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.
KJV

...and it doesn't.

[SunkenCiv]