Early Christianity in Asia and Africa

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No it did, I don't see how it couldn't have been violent personally. But there wasn't this extreme "convert to Islam or die" sentiment behind it that has become fashionable among modern jihadists.

Which wasn't the case in the organised realms. At the most, christians and jews had to pay higher taxes to excercise their religion. Proselityzing, of course, was forbidden. But as a general rule, a jew was much better off in one of the Islamic kingdoms than he was in the West at the same time.