Ok people, lets at least have a little perspective here. First the comment that all one has to do is know Jesus, then peace follows. History is chocker block full of examples of Christian brutallity, mass murder, torture , cultural genocide etc. So obviously that statement is far from real world fact.
In relation to this statement:
"In other words, violence is to be used against Jews and Christians unless they are willing to pay a special tax and live in subjection to Muslims as second-class citizens. For them the choice is convert, die, or live in subjection."
In no way different from Gods command in the OT
Like ordering the killing of an entire town if any there worship another God:
"Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods. In such cases, you must examine the facts carefully. If you find it is true and can prove that such a detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock. Then you must pile all the plunder in the middle of the street and burn it. Put the entire town to the torch as a burnt offering to the LORD your God. That town must remain a ruin forever; it may never be rebuilt." (Deuteronomy 13:13-19)
Or this one:
"If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him. Your hand shall be the first raised to slay him; the rest of the people shall join in with you. You shall stone him to death, because he sought to lead you astray from the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery. And all Israel, hearing of this, shall fear and never do such evil as this in your midst." (Deuteronomy 13:7-12)
There was a survey done to determine who's God was more violent and oppressive. Christianitys or the Muslim God. It was accomplished by comparing all of the acts of violence and oppression ordered by or commited by them in the Bible vs the Koran. The Christian God was shown to be more intolerant and violent then the Islamic one.
