Yes, Dave; I know all that. The Koran doesn't maintain a consistent line, as everyone knows ~~ (even tho it is all, of course, known to be the work of the same person!). But it is not only one side that cherry-picks. I ,in fact, respond merely to the cherry-picks of the other side. And however well they are supposed to co-exist with the other People of the Book [which means the Jews too, of course ~~ Abraham & Jesus are named as great prophets along with, altho lesser than, the True Prophet who came finally] in some places (tho not that many where they do so with the Jews, eh?), it is their obligation to wage Holy War [however interpreted!] against them in others.

But in all, even along with the injunction to co-exist in peace where it occurs, remains the obligation to try to convert them until all the world shares the same True Faith.

So, I repeat, it must involve at least a degree of compromise to neglect that obligation for the sake of a quiet life, as many have to do who choose to go & live among the Infidel. Mustn't it?

'Asking for trouble' I repeat. & trouble is what we are experiencing. It is naive ostrich·icity of the pathetic Carrollian kind to pretend it isn't so.

~M~