But, I wasn't making the claim that my examples were modern "holy wars". My point was to show modern examples of Islam's inability to cohabitate with other religions outside of very strong secular societies that make equality among religions a priority.
History is replete with examples of Muslim persecutions... when the First Crusade took Jerusalem, the blood ran in flows as deep as a man's ankles because the Crusaders killed every man, woman and child in the city... Muslim, Jew and Christian alike... because they couldn't tell the difference at a glance. Vlad Tsepes impaled an entire Muslim army that he had forced to surrender... more than 12,000 men. Ghengis Khan's attack of Samarkand (then part of Persia) was so brutal and devastating that the damage inflicted can still be seen today... nearly 800 years later. The Soviets are famous for their persecution of the Jews, especially under Stalin, but their repression of Muslims in the eastern SSRs was every bit as tyrannical and even more successful.
I was attempting to show that Islam, in general, promotes an inherent intolerance with other religions.
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