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I'd be interested in the response of those who are familiar with the teaching of fundamentalist or orthodox Islam. Is there not a teaching that says that unbelievers are to be offered a friendly invitation to convert to Islam; if they refuse, they are to be afforded safe, but second-class citizenship and required to pay a tribute to the Islamic rulers; if they refuse that, they are to be killed? I remember Ahmadinejad writing a letter to Bush not too long ago inviting him to convert and I immediately thought of this teaching that I had heard.
1. Is that teaching correct as I described?
2. If so, could this letter to the American people be part of the same attempt to be seen as abiding by Islamic teaching before an all-out attack on the American people?
I would like to hear the view of some of you who are knowledgable about the Islamic religion and customs.
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