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Originally Posted by tk27
In 2003 Iran was scared, it offered to:
- Help stabilize Iraq after the American invasion
- Cut ties with Hezbollah and Hamas
- Show greater transparency in it’s nuclear program
In return for:
- Ending hostilities between the two countries
- Lifting of sanctions
- Disbanding of Mujahedeen-e-Khalq
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And after Muhammad broke the Treaty of Hudaybiyya (after having his ass handed to him by the Quraysh and agreeing to almost everything asked of him in negotiations), it became accepted practice for muslims to make treaties that allowed them to 'consolidate and reorganize' to regain an advantageous position, and then break the treaties when they were ready to strike.
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Originally Posted by x-factor
1) they are violent not by temporary necessity but as a matter of philosophy...3) they are aggressively expansionist, again not as a matter of opportunity but as a matter of principle
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Isn't this confirmed in the hadith by Muhammad that there are only three choices when a Muslim encounters an infidel:
- Allow them to accept Islam as the only religion and become Muslim
- Pay the Jizya (a money-making scam for Muhammad that allowed non-Muslims to keep their religion if they paid a 'tax'; not unlike the tributes demanded by the Barbary pirates)
- Kill them
Seems to me to meet the criteria of both conditions.