As St. Justin the Philosopher said, "We know that persecution will engulf the Church to the very end, until the Lord returns and sets us all free." Therefore, persecution is normal for us.

Why? Because we are a foreign body, we are representatives of the Kingdom of God on Earth. We feel ourselves and are, well, if you like, saboteurs sent into enemy territory. Therefore, there are more or less convenient situations, but for us this world is a place in which we can exist, but at the same time we do not hope that this world will become the Kingdom of God by our own efforts.

We hope that God Himself will intervene and remake the entire universe.

For Islam, this is not the case. For Islam, there is service to God, which is manifested mainly in the Sharia, the law. This law embraces the religious life of a person, and his spiritual, spiritual and physical life, and his social life, regulates life in his family and in everything else. That is, Sharia presupposes a certain global project, and a project that, most interestingly, almost does not include the Lord God Himself.

This is the cardinal difference with Orthodoxy: if in Orthodoxy everything is done by the power of the Lord Almighty, then in Islam the intervention of the Lord God is considered such air.

I will try to explain. The fact is that from the point of view of Islam, in general, any actions of a person, or an angel, or an atom are done personally by God God – Allah. And because of this, such a paradoxical phenomenon arises that a person must do everything himself. Due to the fact that there is too much God, if you will, it turns out that there is almost no place for human freedom, and the small piece of freedom that man has left – freedom of choice – is the only tool with which something can be done.

This is a paradox, but it determines the entire worldview of Muslims.

On the one hand, a person can do any deed, for example, commit a terrorist attack, and believe that this is a good deed. Why? For Allah made it through him. But at the same time, he knows that he cannot expect help from Allah. Why can't he? Because Allah does everything himself, and you cannot ask him, because you are a puppet. That is, you only have a small piece of choice.

Omar Khayyam says well on this topic: "A player does not ask the ball for consent, he rushes around the field, driven by blows"[3]. In the same way, we rush across the field of this world, driven by the blows of Allah. There is a very strange attempt to build the Kingdom of God on Earth without God, which really makes Islam look like communism or National Socialism.

By the way, it is interesting that the countries of Islam very easily accepted socialism. A lot of today's Islamic states are socialist. Syria, Iraq until recently, when Saddam Hussein was there. A lot of Islamic countries cooperated with the Soviet Union. They cooperated not because they gave weapons there, but because there was really a certain commonality of ideology.

It is necessary to say what Islam is.

From the point of view of Islam, the whole earth is divided into two parts: the land of peace and the land of war. The land of peace is the land where Sharia law applies[6]. These countries are the land of peace, in which all people obey the laws of Allah, and those who disobey occupy a certain niche. That is, according to the Shari'ah and the Qur'an[7], on which the Shari'a is based, all non-believers are divided into two categories: polytheists and people of the Book.

Polytheists are people who do not recognize the authority of the Holy Scriptures, who do not worship the Creator God, for example: atheists, Buddhists, Hindus, shamanists, you name it. They are subject to forced conversion to Islam or the death penalty, there is no third option for them. The People of the Book—listed in the Qur'an as Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians—have a right to exist.

They are given the honorable right to live on the condition that they do not oppose Islam, do not criticize Islam, do not preach and at the same time pay a number of taxes - jizya[8] (tax on faith) and at the same time have certain restrictions: Christians were obliged to wear crosses on their backs, live in houses no higher than one floor, and did not have the right to ride a horse.