In Genesis in the Old Testament, Yahweh orders the Levits to slaughter 3,000 Hebrews guilty of worshiping a golden calf. This brutal, ruthless slaying of the sinful, wayward chosen people was Yahweh's quick and stern punishment of them for worshiping a false god, and betraying His love, providence and special attention given them.
The shocked conversion of these recalcitrant Semitc herders was profound, swift, complete and permanent. Judaism for the Hebrews, the following of Yahweh and his prophets and kings, drew them up out of paganism and Yahwehism became their faith, their culture, their way of life.
Similarly, Mohammed and Muslims used brutal, murderous techniques to force foreign peoples to convert to Islam and stay Islamic.
It could be at that time simple peoples required violent, coercive conversion tatics to modernize them as a group.
The Jews have further modernized and made progress into democracy and peaceful religios coexistence with unbelievers.
The Muslims have not yet modernized, moderated and transitioned into peaceful coexistence with and tolerance for heretics, blasphemers and unbelievers with their wild rhetoric, independent religious ideas and irreverent free speech.
The methods resorted to by Yahweh and Allah back in the day are now primitive tactics of conversion that are outmoded, crude and very violent and wicked.
People now need to individuate and be persuaded gently and convert---or not at all--of their own free will, without ramifications for unwelcome reaction to Islamic proselytizers.
We will not survive nuclear war if Iran gets the bomb, and yet retains its embracing of terrorism, jihad, holy war and genocide as a means of installing the caliphate and shariah law all over the world.
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