DHAKA, April 18 -- Islamic tolerance. The Qur'an says "There is no compulsion in religion" (2:256). However, what constitutes "compulsion" is in the eye of the beholder. The institutionalized subjugation of the dhimma, with its regular humiliation and harassment, from which one can be freed for the simple price of converting to Islam, is not considered compulsion. Remember Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig, the journalists who were kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam - even though their conversions were obviously coerced, their captors made them say that they were converting freely, and the captors probably believed that themselves. After all, the journos could have chosen to be killed instead.
"Hindu family in Karachi forced to convert to...