Ismail I, the founder of the Safavid dynasty, decreed Twelver Shiism to be the official religion of state and ordered executions of a number of Sunni intellectuals who refused to accept Shiism. The mental trauma due to captivity and slavery caused unransomed prisoners who had lost family, money, and friends to convert to Islam. According to two Cairo Genizah documents, the Ayyubid ruler of Yemen, al-Malik al-Mu’izz al-Ismail (reigned from 1197 to 1202) had attempted to force the Jews of Aden to convert. The kettle containing Týr and Thor, particularly strong in its construction, does not break, and out of it the two gods stride. The Byzantine historian Doukas recounts two other cases of forced or attempted forced conversion: one of a Christian official who had offended Sultan Murad II, and the other of an archbishop. Van Dyke: One of the most famous goatees is also one of the fanciest. Let’s talk about one question that has confused many people. My wife’s question is when my parents were physically abusing me I prayed for help and God did nothing, Why? In 1858, Edgardo Mortara was taken from his Jewish parents and raised as a Catholic, because he had been baptized by a maid without his parents’ consent or knowledge.

This incident was called the Mortara case. In the 17th century, Sabbatai Zevi, a Sephardic Jew whose ancestors were welcomed in the Ottoman Empire during the Spanish Inquisition, proclaimed himself as the Jewish Messiah and called for the abolition of major Jewish laws and customs. We are all aware that there are a number of sects in the Muslim community and there are people who follow Shiaism and these people are called Shias or Shiaits. Those who converted had to wear clothing that identified them as Jews since they were not regarded as sincere Muslims. Christians under the Almohad rule generally chose to relocate to the Christian principalities (most notably the Kingdom of Asturias) in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, whereas Jews decided to stay in order to keep their properties, and many of them feigned conversion to Islam, while continuing to believe and practice Judaism in secrecy. Some Christians fled to the Christian kingdoms in the north and west and helped fuel the Reconquista. However, a few Jewish traders still working in North Africa are recorded.

The Synoptic Gospels, then, are the primary sources for knowledge of the historical Jesus. During his travels through the Salt lake region of central Anatolia, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier observed in the town of Mucur, “there are numbers of Greeks who are forced everyday to become Turks”. The governor of Comana forced its population to pray 5 times a day and those who refused to go to the mosque were brought to it by threat of physical violence. During his campaigns, Sultan Malik Danishmend swore to forcibly convert the population of the city of Sisiya Comana to Islam and he did so upon capturing it. Then he forced most of the urban dhimmi population in Morocco, both Jewish and Christian, to convert to Islam. In the early eighth century under the Umayyads, 63 out of a group of 70 Christian pilgrims from Iconium were captured, tortured, and executed under the orders of the Arab Governor of Ceaserea for refusing to convert to Islam (seven were forcibly converted to Islam under torture).

After the Arab conquests, a number of Christian Arab tribes suffered enslavement and forced conversion. A measure listed in the legal works by Al-Shawkānī is of forced conversion of Jewish orphans. The forced conversion of Jewish orphans was reintroduced under Imam Yahya in 1922. The Orphans’ Decree was implemented aggressively for the first ten years. All persons above 15 years of age were compelled to listen to Christian preaching, failing which they were punished. Are we 10 years away from artificial life? Also religious denominations which have a relevant presence in the country, but for which there are no data, are included in the table. Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator to obtain from the controller the confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning him or her are being processed. Hinduism. In the aftermath of the violence, American Christian evangelical groups have claimed that Hindu groups are forcibly reverting Christian converts from Hinduism back to Hinduism.