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Personally, I think you missed, or deflected, AKV's point.
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I see his point, it's noble and honorable - but I'm speaking of Islamic doctrine that oppresses the "Kafir" - the supremacist ideology of what the devout Muslim is to do if they are truly following the example of their prophet. Devout practitioners of Islam have been oppressing and exploiting the "Kafir" for the better part of 1400 years - tolerance and mutual respect is great as long as it is mutual...why defend the Muslims right to exercise Islams doctrine of supremacy and supercessionism ?
"Muslim chroniclers described the ongoing jihad (holy war), involving the destruction of whole towns, the massacre of large numbers of their populations, the enslavement of women and children, and the confiscation of vast regions. This picture of catastrophe and destruction corresponds to the period of gradual erosion of Palestinian Jewry. According to [the Muslim chronicler] Baladhuri (d. 892 C.E.), 40,000 Jews lived in Caesarea alone at the Arab conquest, after which all trace of them is lost…" ~Bat Ye'or~