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Syrian Al-Qaeda Rebels Try To Force Christians To Convert To Islam After Seizing Control of Their Village
famousdayandyear:
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Syrian Al-Qaeda Rebels Try To Force Christians To Convert To Islam After Seizing Control of Their Village…
Yes, still moderates.
Via Telegraph:
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, rebel groups, a mix of the extremist Jabhat al-Nusra and the more moderate Free Syrian Army (FSA), attacked with full force.
“First they took a brick factory owned by a Christian guy, who is now missing,” said the resident. “Then at around 5.30am, a car bomb detonated at the checkpoint at the entrance to the village.
“Some of the rebels entered a home near the checkpoint belonging to Yousef Haddad, a Christian. They tried to force him to convert to Islam.”
A nun living in a convent in the village told the Associated press that 27 orphans living in the convent were taken to nearby caves for shelter.
Video footage posted on YouTube showed rebel fighters on a pick up truck with an anti-aircraft gun mounted on the back firing erratically from inside the mountain town.
Christians, who make up approximately 10 per cent of Syria’s population, have increasingly become targets in the conflict as sectarian-minded foreign jihadists gain influence in the opposition ranks. Almost a third of the Syriac Christian population has fled the rebel-held northern town of Hassakeh after Christians became targets for kidnappings and assassinations.
happyg:
You cannot force someone to believe something they know is not true. Islam is based on indoctrination, while Christianity is base on faith, and belief in the Holy Scripture. It is personal for Christians, whereas Islam is a so-called religion/political cult that is taught rather than 'felt'.
famousdayandyear:
The problem is: Convert, or get your head cut off in a slow protracted manner. Islam doesn't give a fig about how you 'feel' about anything. You are right: total subservience is the objective.
Olivia:
It takes a stupid mind to follow a "religion" that is so violent with a total lack of compassion to anyone. :thumbsdown:
truth_seeker:
--- Quote from: happyg on September 06, 2013, 05:14:02 pm ---You cannot force someone to believe something they know is not true. Islam is based on indoctrination, while Christianity is base on faith, and belief in the Holy Scripture. It is personal for Christians, whereas Islam is a so-called religion/political cult that is taught rather than 'felt'.
--- End quote ---
Some history. When the Catholics forced Jews and Muslims to convert during their Inquisitions, many did so. (Protestants, too-Huguents fled wide and far, to escape the Catholic church in France.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Converso
In some cases the conversion became permanent, and in some cases it was false.
It is intellectually dishonest, to ignore this historical period, and the results thereof.
BTW there were Inquisition, in France and Italy, too.
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