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Allah commanded through Mohammed that all of the worlds peoples must be Muslim. If they refuse, they can remain Christian or Jewish, but have to pay an usurious tax, and are not allowed to have houses of worship or come together in groups. And you can kill them. Pagans you can kill outright, but Christians and Jews must be given a chance to come to understand that submitting to Allah is the only choice. That's the idea behind the tax ... and the expectation that within a few generations those folks will join up. Islam takes a long view of success. Oh, and if you are Muslim and decided to try another path, you will be killed.
There's more, of course, but those are the essentials.
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