>>9625615>The willingness to die while killing the infidels, taught in the religious texts onjihad, gave Muslim warriors a tactical advantage over their enemies during the Islamic
conquests. This willingness to die is found, for example, in the words of the Islamic
Caliphate’s Arab commander Khalid Ibn Walid in 633, ordering the Persians to submit to
Islam, or else: “Otherwise you are bound to meet a people who love death as much as you
love life.”
