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The History of Islam is one of pure violence and extortion.
Aside from the direct commands to kill unbelievers in the Quran...lengthy directives exist on many forms of extortion.
Extortion was part of the Desert peoples cultures..readily adapted to Quranic thought..and accepted by the broader masses as "Pure thought".
In a sense..Islam is allways at war with those who do not submit to its tenants.
"Al -harb" ..[House of War] is how they view other systems which cannot be subjugated or extorted.
Extortion is the phase that is interem to direct military conflict..a phase of control which can go only one direction..
Back in the period of the Crusades..Rome tried to enter into concordants with Islam..they signed "Papal Bulls" giving leaders of Islam "Operational rights"..sort of.."You can attack so and so..conquer so and so..but don't cross this line".
In the end..Papal Rome was entangled in financial treaties..land for land treaties..and pure extortion..as Islam pulled every string to keep Rome going backwards..and yeilding to more extortion.
Vienna nearly fell..Islam was for real..and would be a player of substance.
Now..in our time,Islam has engineered the same extortion realities as the past.
From Europe to America..all pay cash..and give..to keep the juggernaught at bay.
When islam does not get its way..the extortion ramps up..
Israel is a convenient excuse to maintain the extortion,..the Palestinians,Oil,past colonial contact..just tools and political momentum which support the Extortion reality.
For Islam..lying to Infidels is no sin..or evil.it is infact a "Modus operendi".
What have we seen since Sept 11th but all of these "Ways of Islam".
Sept 11th..the many assassinations of Americans abroad..the wars in the Balkans and with Israel reveal an Islam going about things much as they have since the late 600's.

Good post. One way to think of the Prophet's work is that he developed a new religion that enabled the squabbling barbarian tribes of the Arabian Peninsula to drop their quarrels with one another and unite to pillage and loot Jews, Christians, and others outside the faith. Those who imagine that Islam must somehow be like other religions are sadly uninformed. It is devoid of any notion of human or civil rights, not only for outsiders, but for believers.