The Religion of Forced Belief

Yes ladies and gentlemen, it's another example of that storied Religion of Peace tolerance and acceptance that we've come to see with such regularity.

Eight people have been arrested in Jordan for propagating the Christian faith, according to a Saudi newspaper.

Jordanian security forces arrested eight people, mostly foreigners, after they were caught distributing missionary material to Bedouin families north and east of the Jordanian capital, Amman, the Saudi daily Al-Watan reported.

The authorities received information about the missionaries from local residents who said these foreigners were offering humanitarian assistance to poor Muslim families and distributing fliers promoting Christianity.

Sources said they were "enticing" impoverished youngsters by paying them money and calling on them to marry foreign girls. Islam is the state religion in Jordan, though christianity is a recognized religion in the country. Evangelism is a practice frowned upon in the Muslim world, and often associated with Western imperialism.

The Jordanian government prohibits conversion from Islam and the proselytizing of Muslims. The Shari'a courts have the authority to prosecute people trying to convert Muslims, according to the United States State Department's annual report on religious freedom.

Muslims in Jordan who convert to another religion face social and
governmental discrimination, the report said.

Morals and ethics are claimed by moslems to be the result of the inerrancy of islam (an utterly untrue assertion with reams of evidence against it), which is then touted as this wondrous panacea that solves all the world's ills and makes all those who believe, people deserving of eternal paradise.

My expectation is that if islam is so beneficial that it must be forced on all (as is the belief of many moslems), then it follows adherents to it should be better people. If belief in that politico-religious ideology makes you less tolerant, more violent, then of what good is it?