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|web link=http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/013625.php
|title=Death-Defying Feat
|author=Robert Spencer
|source=JihadWatch
|date=October 17, 2006
|wmdsays=The general principal of invitations is described in the article below.
|extract=Conservative Book Club Editor Elizabeth Kantor interviews me about The Truth About Muhammad: (interview with Robert Spencer of jihadwatch)

How have Muhammad's character and the events of his life shaped Islam as we know it today?
In innumerable ways. Most notoriously, of course, in violence. Muhammad commanded his followers to offer non-Muslims conversion to Islam, subjugation as inferiors within the Islamic social order, or war (cf. Sahih Muslim 4294). We have recently seen Al-Qaeda’s Adam Gadahn and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran extend the invitation to Islam; Gadahn to all Americans and Ahmadinejad to George W. Bush. We should understand that the follow-up to such invitations, in accord with the example of the perfect man, is violence. Moreover, jihad warriors around the world invoke his example. The late Zarqawi exhorted his followers several years ago in these terms: “Is it not time for you to take the path of jihad and carry the sword of the Prophet of prophets?...The Prophet, the most merciful, ordered [his army] to strike the necks of some prisoners in [the battle of] Badr and to kill them....And he set a good example for us.” This kind of statement is common.

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