Comments on: Looks like there IS coercion under Islam https://www.yourish.com/2007/08/06/3512 Cutting straight to the point Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:06:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Michael Lonie https://www.yourish.com/2007/08/06/3512/comment-page-1#comment-27760 Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:06:52 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/08/06/3512#comment-27760 This goes back a long way. Maimonides had to leave Spain because the Almoravides, a sort of proto-Wahhabi sect of barbarians from south of the Atlas Mountains that ruled the country then, was forcing Jews to convert to Islam. Of course he ended up in Egypt under Saladin’s rule, a more civilized milieu.

]]> By: Sabba Hillel https://www.yourish.com/2007/08/06/3512/comment-page-1#comment-27756 Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:45:38 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/08/06/3512#comment-27756 They actually think that conversion under the threat of death is legitimate. After all, that is how they got started in the beginning.

]]> By: Rahel https://www.yourish.com/2007/08/06/3512/comment-page-1#comment-27754 Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:20:26 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/08/06/3512#comment-27754 Sure, no compulsion… or kidnapping or rape, either.

Whom do they think they’re fooling?

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