Original sentence: However, for pagans and non-“Peoples of the Book”, had a required choice between accepting Islām or death.However, still many people of this different status chose to join Islām in order to escape the disability of the jizyah.Jews and Christians were assigned a secondary status, as groups possessing scriptures and called “Peoples of the Book” (ahl al-kitāb); therefore allowed religious autonomy at a cost.Later on, after years of killings in concurred territories, the same special status of “Peoples of the Book” was extended to Zoroastrians and Hindus.Muslims quite often declare Islām’s “egalitarianism” within the community of the faithful in concert with its “official discrimination” against the followers of other religions resulted in quickly building multiples of converts.The combination of religious and the required governing character of Islām, with the self-imposed justification as a religious state required by God through jihad (“holy war” or “holy struggle”) to spread throughout the world, explains the extremely successful expansion of this faith.The initial generations of Muslims (beginning with Muhammad himself) had started Islāmic conquests and empire building allowing this religion to grow rapidly.They had a per capita tax imposed called jizyah, while Muslims had no such discriminatory tax