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    Posted: 02-Dec-2011 at 01:14
"...Men such as Captain John Ward of Kent astounded their compatriots by proudly adopting Islam to fight the Inquisition and the expansionist powers of Europe...."
This is some statement here! Of course, in the view of a sworn atheist this sounds like adopting the fire to fight the flame. Islam was no less expansionist than Christianity /if no more/ and at least in those times the changing of faith was treated with death, no exceptions. i wager Ward probably just  liked the perspective of the 70 virginsWink better than the promises of burning in hell for his way of life, so why not choose the more delectably sounding idea.



Edited by Don Quixote - 02-Dec-2011 at 01:17
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Jack "Sparrow" Ward was an English pirate captain in the service of the Turks. When King James ended hostilities with Spain, Ward and fellow pirates like Henry Mainwaring, Robert Walsingham and Peter Easton were given command of the Sultan's warships and continued their profitable enterprise. Most of these pirates were eventually pardoned and recruited into the Royal Navy, but Ward converted to Islam and lived in Turkey until his death at the age of 70
http://www.themodernreligion.com/ht/ward-the-pirate.html
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