Last week on Pajamas Media (via RaymondIbrahim.com), I compared and contrasted two accounts of forced conversion to Islam, two samples, one from modern Pakistan, the other from roughly 500 years earlier, under Ottoman rule, and found great continuity:

Finding and connecting similar patterns of behavior throughout Islamic history is one of the most objective ways of determining whether something is or is not part of Muslim civilization.

Consider the... http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/10/raymond-ibrahim-islams-uninterrupted-h...