Being made to feel inferior was one thing; many dhimmis learned to live with it. But two other sharia provisions created—and continue to create†—deep frustrations. The first, still colloquially known as Islam’s “blasphemy” law, banned on pain of death any speech that could be interpreted as offensive to Muhammad and/or Islam (including preaching the Gospel, which contradicts—and thus makes a liar of—Muhammad). The second, Islam’s apostasy law, also bans on pain of death any Muslim attempts to leave Islam (which, then and now, is particularly evident when a Muslim actively converts to and
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