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Where is that taught in the Koran?
That's a case of double speak.
A couple things
I'd refer you to the verses that make reference to the concept of "paying Jizya"
As well as this one
Al-Baqarah - The Cow - 2:193 (Sura: 2, Verse: 193)
Saying that "it's not compulsion, it's your own choice" is a bit disingenuous if one knows their choice could end in death if they don't make "the right choice" according to the person holding the sword.
Basically
If I'm holding the sword and tell you "hey I'm going to keep attacking until you freely choose to see things my way, but I can't make up your mind for you, it's your choice, what's it gonna be?" And you predictably comply (like many people would because you don't want to get hurt or killed), it's dishonest to say that it was uncoerced conversion.
And then when you have other passages like these:
Fight against them (unbelievers) until there is no dissension, and the religion is for Allah.
Fight until no other religion exists but Islam.
We will throw terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve.
Seize them and slay them wherever ye find them; and in any case take no friends or helpers from their ranks
I shall cast terror into the hearts of the unbelievers. Strike them above the necks, smite their finger tips
...it's pretty hard to suggest that there isn't some forced conversion there. Fight against them until there's no dissention doesn't sound like like free conversion, that just sounds like make them so scared that they convert out of fear for their own lives, and then pretend that it was an uninfluenced choice.
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