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Originally Posted by Kevin
Kind of proves the emporer who Benedict quoted's point, doesn't it?
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Ironically, yes it does.... if you've read the whole of the Emporer's discussion - and his fear that the Crusades have introduced a propensity for violence into the Muslim faith, and changed 'Jihad' from holy struggle to holy war.
The Emporer and the scholar were in discussion of what changes had been wrought in the Muslim faith since the writing of Sura 2, 256: ""There is no compulsion in religion", and how violence as a compulsion to conversion had been introduced into both Christian and Muslim faiths.
It was both a theological and practical debate, as the Byzantine Empire was rapidly falling before the advance of the Ottomans. The Emporer was musing whether or not Christianity had wrought it's own distruction in the East.