Christians coerced Muslim conversions while genuinely unaware they were forcing anyone

Evidence

19. Sancti Raymundi summa sacrorum canonum, Lib. 1, tit. iv. ‘Coacta servicia’: the Dominicans at Constantinople, during the brief period of Latin Empire, argued.with a dervish who ‘blasphemed’ Christ that logically he must either be beheaded or agree that Islam is unjust, because in Islam a Christian who ‘blasphemed’ Muhammad would be beheaded. This was hardly to compare like with like, in that blaspheming Christ here meant denying His divinity (with reverence), whereas blaspheming Muhammad meant calling him by many bad names. The dervish was put in prison, where he refused food for two days, but had a vision and was converted. It does not seem that the Christians felt conscious that they were coercing him. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 2122

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the disjunction in apologetics — the ‘either behead him or agree Islam is unjust’ forced dilemma — and to modern arguments about implicit coercion in evangelism that the coercers fail to see.
• SEED: Angle: the self-blindness of coercers — institutions that exercise violence while believing they are merely persuading — as a recurring pattern across religious missions, colonial administrations, and modern workplaces.