A Rejoinder to Pope's Allegations Against Islam — Page 45
BIBLICAL TEACHIN"GS And compulsion in the religion I discussed the Islamic teachings and the practice of the prophet of Islam regarding propagation of religion, his conduct with non Muslims and freedom provided by the prophet of Islam to the non Muslims. Now I will discuss the Biblical teachings and the practice of the follower of the Bible in this regard, and it will be very easy to decide which scripture provides more freedom of speech and conscience. When we study the Biblical history, it is full of blood shed, no forgiveness or mercy at all. In reality the Biblical teachings are packed with horror and terror. It is mentioned in the Bible; "When the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are about to enter and occupy, and he clears away many nations before you-the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations mightier and more numerous than you. And when the Lord your God gives them over to you and you defeat them, then you must utterly destroy them. Make no covenant with them and show them no mercy. " (DEUTERONOMY 7:1-2) Can someone believe, these are the teaching of any religion? No nation, culture or civilization permits killing, after any nation has been conquered. But in the above quotation of the Bible Moses said to his followers to slaughter all the inhabitants of the land, after they surrendered, and not to 45