Convert or die. That is their religion.
After the first war, Muslims intensified their campaign against Christians. My grandparents were ‘oppressed’ and finally thrown out of their OWN country. What do I mean by ‘oppressed’? ‘Your children can go to school, but only if they learn Turkish and become Muslim along with the whole family. Otherwise you leave ... and also leave everything behind.'
They refused to go to Turkish school so many arrived in the US, illiterate.. They were force marched to ports and put on boats.
The Armenians were also ‘oppressed’ but differently. They were bankers, attorneys, professors, etc. and had wealth and property, so they were murdered outright.
This Muslim hatred goes WAY back!
“Convert or die. That is their religion.”
In all fairness that was the tender offered the Vikings by King Olaf and St. Vlad to the Kievan and Russ.....just two examples...
There was a lot of “convert or die” ultimatums made to pagans...Teuton Knights, Conquistadors, etc....and even within sects of Christianity.....Wars of Religion....France’s genocide of the Protestant Huguenots, Habsburgs vs the Bohemians, then the Dutch, etc.....
Just scream heresy and stoke the bonfires while raping the women and enslaving the kids....Munster anyone?
Wars on Pagans are a good thing. Salvation is an individual choice....but banning Pagan practices is Biblical NT and OT.
It is analogous to driving the Canaanites from the Promised Land and thereby fulfill the Great Commission.
But, the internecine wars of Catholics and Protestants killing each other was non-productive and definitely not Christlike.
Who started it?
Then the unending revenge.
It quickly became about earthly power, money, and land in reality with dogma as the window dressing.
But, those Jesuits still play might fine football at Notre Dame.
And, what the heck do I know and I do not feel strongly about it. :->