Pakistani Christians convert to Islam

The article in Friday's Toronto Star "Pakistani Christians seek safety in Islam" could have been titled, "Christians Forced to Convert to Islam". By the use of violence and fear at least 25 Christians per week are "voluntarily" becoming Muslims in Pakistan. This same technique of violence and fear to force "volentary" conversions is being used in Egypt against the Copts and in Somalia. It is undoubtedly the same technique that changed the Middle East from a Christian to an Islamic area and forced India to accept the division of its country into Pakistian and India. It is this same procedure that caused the Crusades by Christians who wanted to retake parts of the Holy Land whose residents had been forced "voluntarily" to convert to Islam. Can a "religion of peace" use force and terror to obtain uniformity and dominance over non-Muslims or "the infidel" and still be called a religion of peace?