[Uriel1975]

What Anne said was no different than what Jonah said.

"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity," --Ann Coulter

Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying, "Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and proclaim to it the proclamation which I am going to tell you." So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a three days' walk. Then Jonah began to go through the city one day's walk; and he cried out and said, "Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown." Then the people of Nineveh believed in God; and they called a fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least of them. When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, laid aside his robe from him, covered himself with sackcloth and sat on the ashes. He issued a proclamation and it said, "In Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let man, beast, herd, or flock taste a thing. Do not let them eat or drink water. But both man and beast must be covered with sackcloth; and let men call on God earnestly that each may turn from his wicked way and from the violence which is in his hands. Who knows, God may turn and relent and withdraw His burning anger so that we will not perish." When God saw their deeds, that they turned from their wicked way, then God relented concerning the calamity which He had declared He would bring upon them. And He did not do it. -- Book of the Prophet Jonah, Chapter 3, NASB

Question #1: Do you contend that there is no ethical distinction whatsoever between Jonah warning Nineveh of God's impending judgment (leaving their response thereunto in their own hands), and Ann Coulter's advocacy of forced conversion?

Question #2: Do you contend that God specifically told Ann Coulter what to say, as He told Jonah?

Conversion by the Sword:
1.) Is unBiblical; and
2.) Doesn't work.

"It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life... And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father." -- John 6: 63, 65 KJV

[Alkhin]

I contend that the Bible says an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, that Anne in her educated observance of events and the cultural divide that we stand upon presents a problem that the Muslims have worked out quite well in their minds...and that the only response they will understand is the same one they threw in our faces: convert, or die.

However, being the enlightened person that I am, and the Christian I was brought up to be, I do not for one second believe that faith in God comes under the duress of the sword. But that the tactics that the Muslims be employed be used against them. What Anne said was no different than Jonah saying we should invade Africa and colonize it. If America is going to spend its resources becoming involved in a conflict or economic endeavor, then TOTAL immersion should take place.

Your references from the Bible do not stand in this situation. And using Bible reference to beat up MY particular beliefs is a kind of jihad I find offensive.

[Apogee]

There is actually one instance of conversion by the sword which apparently took.
In 878, King Alfred the Great, along with his Anglo-Saxon allies, successfully attacked the viking plunderers (read terrorists) and, after capturing their leaders caused them to be baptized and swear fealty to God.
The vanquished kings and their people actually sought and recieved instruction in the faith and lived accordingly.
Of course, in previous eras, one took oaths seriously, and followed whatever religion your leader or family head prescribed for you, an idea that is foreign to most today.