It always ends up meaning submission to the Islamic jihadists since they believe that their every action is the will of God and that God only acts through them. I think that's why the Mughal emperors, for example, seemed to think of themselves as gods.To be fair, I would think most Muslims would define it in such a way as to mean "Submission to God", which is certainly not anything foreign to Christianity (or Judaism, as far as I know). Granted, in the experience of the non-Muslim populations of the Middle East it did mean submission to Arab-Muslim governance, law, and religion, but it's still a distinction that can be made between how the religion sees itself and how it has actually behaved in the world.
(More to your point/disgusting is the fact that the word that is used in Arabic for the Muslim conquests -- which are openly and positively recognized as conquests in Muslim literature written in Arabic -- is fatH فتح / futuH فتوح -- literally "opening(s)", in the sense of opening the world outside of Arabia proper to the rule of Islam. Gross.)
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