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Jonah's (based on what comes later), but what does the bishop have to do with anything, then? You also need to explain the practice of killing the inhabitants of a city that resists (I added a sentence but it isn't cited, and it needs elaboration). And the Muslim rationale of allowing
Christians and Jews to remain without conversion...and the tax. Drop a note on my talk page when you want me to take another look. As I understand it, you want to go to Military History ACR
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