This is how all the lands that are today considered part of the “Islamic world” became Muslim. It was not done by “wisdom and beautiful preaching” (Qur’an 29:46), but by force, threats and intimidation. See The History of Jihad for the full story. “After an ‘isolated’ incident… Christian existential anxiety in Maaloula, Syria,” translated from … Continue reading Syria: Muslims threaten to seize Christian lands, tell some Christians to leave their homes or be killed