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Old 04-18-2007, 20:39   #766
x-factor
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Join Date: Apr 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Razor
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.
Thats my point on why Jihadists/Salafists/extremists are different from the Iranian government. One acts on that hadith in every case possible, the other takes it as just one factor of many in the course of statecraft.
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