[cake_crumb]

In North Africa where the enslavement of Christians is practically a daily occurance, they either convert or are sold as slaves or killed.

[ronnieb]

I understand what you are saying, but slavery is not a form of spreading the faith, it is done for money. The conversion "option" was offered by political, military and religious leaders, there is no doubt of that. Slave traders are neither. The most persistent slave traders in the history of the world are Moslems, to portray it as a form of prosletyzing is, I think, giving them a pretty big break. I don't believe one could simply convert, and avoid all that ugliness. They would just convert and then convert back when the traders(prosletizers) moved on.