A DIFFERENT VIEW OF PEACE

"Islam, we’ve been told, is related to the Arabic word

meaning "peace." This is correct, except that the

word means a particular kind of peace. A better

translation is "surrender" or "submission." It

describes the peace when a vanquished soldier lays

down his arms in submission. And so the very name,

Islam, has militaristic connotations, and in this

lies

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