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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hafizsaad" data-source="post: 5868762" data-attributes="member: 153303"> IS THE QUESTION " WAS ISLAM SPREAD BY THE SWORD ? " HAS ANY PLACE IN REALITY ?Concerning the rules of combat as outlined in Islam, the following points are important to note:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">1 - In war as in peace, the injunctions of Islam are to be strictly observed. Worship does not cease during times of war. Islamic jurisprudence maintains that whatever is prohibited during peace is also prohibited during war. </li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">2 - In spite of the alleged command of Allah to kill all non-believers, millions of non-Muslims continue to live beside their Muslim brothers in the predominantly Muslim countries. 3 - In the United States of America as well as in other Western countries,   Muslims are quite successfully convincing the non-Muslims—instead of trying to kill them—that Islam is more tolerant than Judaism and at any rate the Christian coalition. Of course, one may cite instances of Muslims killing non-Muslims, but at the same time, Christians, too, have been killing non-Christians! Does anyone need a command from God to go and kill? 4 - The Muslim preachers allowed in the US prisons are more successful than their Christian counterparts in getting converts. Maybe that is one of the reasons for spreading this absurd story! “The second-largest religion in the world after Christianity, Islam, is also the fastest-growing religion. In the United States, for example, nearly 80 percent of the more than 1,200 mosques have been built in the past 12 years. Some scholars see an emerging Islamic renaissance as Islam takes root in many traditionally Christian communities. Islam has drawn converts from all walks of life, most notably African-Americans…” (From a CNN report of April 14, 1997). 5 - Not even one with the brains of a gnat would believe that a Muslim imam engaged in inviting non-Muslims to Islam would undermine his cause by making an open declaration that the Muslim mission in life is to kill all non-Muslims. Or else he must be insane or hopelessly dim-witted. 6 - see if Allah had commanded Muslims to kill all non-Muslims, the Prophet and his companions would not have left alive any non-Muslim tribes in Arabia, when they had got complete authority over them.  Was it because of the fear of the sword that hundreds of thousands of the most warlike Arabs of the time literally followed the Prophet in everything he commanded ? 7 - Can a religion that preaches the killing of all outside its confines capture the minds and hearts of millions throughout history and also fastly increasing religion all the time? 8 - For the first time in the history of warfare, it was Islam that adopted an attitude of mercy and caring for the captured enemy. In actual history, we can read how Muhammad, on the occasion of his conquest of Makkah,how he not only forgave his worst enemy abu sufyaan but also commenced the house of sufyaan will be the place of peace for all the people of makkah. 9 - It is also interesting to note that when the Mongols invaded and conquered large portions of the Islamic Empire, instead of destroying the religion, they adopted it. This is a unique occurrence in history - the conquerors adopting the religion of the conquered! Since they were the victors, they certainly could not have been forced to become Muslims! Ask any of the over one billion Muslims alive in the world today whether they were forced! The largest Muslim country in the world today is Indonesia --- and there were never any battles fought there . . .[/B]! 10 - why and when war ? It is true that God in His Book permits fighting, but only as a last resort. Allah says in the Qur'an what means: Fight in the way of Allah against those who fight against you, but begin not hostilities.Lo! Allah loves not, aggressors.(Al-Baqarah 2:190) The above permission to fight clearly lays down the following conditions: (1) Never commit aggression; fighting is allowed only for self-defense. (2) Fighting must never be against non-combatants or non-fighting personnel. The permision for fighting are only in following cases :       1 - Fighting in the case of self-defense.       2 - Fighting to defend the right of everyone to believe in            God and practice   His religion.       3 - Fighting against brutal oppression and injustice. </li> </ul>for more see my signature Jihad and terrorism<a href="http://www.submission.org/unhmnrights.html" target="_blank">UN Human Rights Declaration and the Quran</a></blockquote>

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