Interesting WSJ posting - and more interesting reaction

In a WSJ blog posting, Iraqi Sarmad Ali talks about his experiences attending a Passover seder this year in Michigan. It is an interesting piece, talking about how Jews and Muslims used to live together in Baghdad and how Baathist rule changed all that.

Some Arabs commenting to the post, however, are incensed that an Arab can write something sympathetic to Jews:

This reads like a poorly disguised anti-muslim, halocaust sympathising tear jerker. Boohooo!
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that the Muslims are told by Allah that their faith must be the dominant religion in any country where Muslims live - Allah has said so (it is in the Koran). The unbelievers in dar al-harb must come to understand this, or suffer the punishment that Allah will give them through his servants in Islam. There is no “middle ground” or compromise with the word of Allah - it is absolute. It is forbidden by Allah to commit violence or mayhem on people for the sake of it, but Muslims feel compelled to do this where Allah’s word commands it - because Allah commands that that the unbelievers are not to be spared except if they come into the Islamic faith and obey the will of Allah in truth, whereupon Allah will save them. This way, there shall be peace. The unbelievers live in decadence and corruption, with belief in blasphemies such as the Christian Holy Trinity, or in no god at all but man-made concepts such as “human conscience”, “freedom”, or “human rights”. These are nothing to do with Allah and must all be swept away by Islam and governance under the Shariah law. Great is the wisdom of Allah.
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..... the article here is written by an Islamic hypocrite who associates with unbelievers. He has strayed far from the word of Allah.

Allah tells us what to do with unbelievers and hypocrites in the Al-Nisa’ (verse 4:85): “They would have you disbelieve as they themselves have done, so that you may be all alike. Do not befriend them until they have fled their homes for the cause of Allah. If they desert you, put them to death wherever you find them.”