Vaidyanathan J says:

Dear abdul quadir, Please give a thought to these facts below and you decide for yourself.
1) Per say Quaran should be dubious. Because there are 2 set of people use the same Quaran to describe 2 polarising activity . There are hundreds of Fatwas issued in India against Hinduism. Please refer i) Fatwa-i-rizvia, ii) Fatwa Dar-al-ulum deoband, iii) Fatwa Ahl-i-Hadis etc., If Quaran respects all religions, why should they issue fatwa on Hindus
2) If Quran respects all religions, why is there a word called Kafir? There is no necessity for a religion that respects all religions to talk about Individuals of other beliefs and state them as Kafir. This is equal to the Christian word Sinners
3) If a non-Muslim is a Kafir, what was Mohammad before the acquaintance with Angel. How come Angels interact to Kafir, but Muslims are forbidded to interact with Hindus
4) If Muslims are peace loving people and like to live in peace, why is there a constant struggle in Muslim majority countries like Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Syria, Turkey, Omen, Egypt etc.,
5) Have you visited Mel Vicharam in Tamilnadu and Mallapuram in Kerala? These are declared 100% Muslim populated area. See what is practiced in these places.
6) Freedom for Women is a lasting Question in Islam. For gods sake, please read attrocities committed to females in the name of Islam. My heart bleeds for those women folks
7) Islam denies to grow from its 1200 year old ideas about Human specie. There need to be changes to the religion to adopt to current situations where human consciousness has grown manifold times.

I can keep stating a lot, but considering my time I am stopping here. Try to look at the world through a objective vision instead of prejudiced and judgemental attitude.

There is still hope.

Thank you,

Vaidy

abdul quadir says:

Vaidyanathan J

if Muslim use the sword know India must be a Muslim country never Muslim use the sword read this I given u sum thing about Muslim history

Islam has always given respect and freedom of religion to all faiths. Freedom of religion is ordained in the Quran itself:

“There shall be no compulsion in [acceptance of] the religion. The right course has become clear from the wrong.” (Quran 2:256)

The noted historian De Lacy O’Leary wrote:[1] “History makes it clear however, that the legend of fanatical Muslims sweeping through the world and forcing Islam at the point of the sword upon conquered races is one of the most fantastically absurd myths that historians have ever repeated.”

The famous historian, Thomas Carlyle, in his book Heroes and Hero worship, refers to this misconception about the spread of Islam: “The sword indeed, but where will you get your sword? Every new opinion, at its starting is precisely in a minority of one; in one man’s head alone. There it dwells as yet. One man alone of the whole world believes it, there is one man against all men. That he takes a sword and tries to propagate with that will do little for him. You must get your sword! On the whole, a thing will propagate itself as it can.”

If Islam was spread by the sword, it was the sword of intellect and convincing arguments. It is this sword that conquers the hearts and minds of people. The Quran says in this connection:

“Invite to the way of your Lord with wisdom and good instruction, and argue with them in a way that is best.” (Quran 16:125)

The facts speak for themselves
· Indonesia is the country that has the largest number of Muslims in the world, and the majority of people in Malaysia are Muslims. But, no Muslim army ever went to Indonesia or Malaysia. It is an established historical fact that Indonesia entered Islam not due to war, but because of its moral message. Despite the disappearance of Islamic government from many regions once ruled by it, their original inhabitants have remained Muslims. Moreover, they carried the message of truth, inviting others to it as well, and in so doing endured harm, affliction and oppression. The same can be said for those in the regions of Syria and Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, North Africa, Asia, the Balkans and in Spain. This shows that the effect of Islam on the population was one of moral conviction, in contrast to occupation by western colonialists, finally compelled to leave lands whose peoples held only memories of affliction, sorrow, subjugation and oppression.

· Muslims ruled Spain (Andalusia) for about 800 years. During this period the Christians and Jews enjoyed freedom to practice their respective religions, and this is a documented historical fact.

· Christian and Jewish minorities have survived in the Muslim lands of the Middle East for centuries. Countries such as Egypt, Morocco, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan all have significant Christian and Jewish populations.

· Muslims ruled India for about a thousand years, and therefore had the power to force each and every non-Muslim of India to convert to Islam, but they did not, and thus more than 80% of the Indian population remains non-Muslim.

· Similarly, Islam spread rapidly on the East Coast of Africa. And likewise no Muslim army was ever dispatched to the East Coast of Africa.

· An article in Reader’s Digest ‘Almanac’, yearbook 1986, gives the statistics of the increase of the percentage of the major religions of the world in half a century from 1934 to 1984. This article also appeared in The Plain Truth magazine. At the top was Islam, which increased by 235%, while Christianity had increased by 47%. During this fifty-year period, there was no “Islamic conquest” yet Islam spread at an extraordinary rate.

· Today the fastest growing religion in America and Europe is Islam. The Muslims in these lands are a minority. The only sword they have in their possession is the sword of truth. It is this sword that is converting thousands to Islam.

· Islamic law protects the privileged status of minorities, and that is why non-Muslim places of worship have flourished all over the Islamic world. Islamic law also allows non-Muslim minorities to set up their own courts, which implement family laws drawn up by the minorities themselves. The life and property of all citizens in an Islamic state are considered sacred whether they are Muslims or not.

Conclusion
It is clear, therefore, that Islam did not spread by the sword. The “sword of Islam” did not convert all the non-Muslim minorities in Muslim countries. In India, where Muslims ruled for 800 years, they are still a minority. In the U.S.A., Islam is the fastest growing
“Let there be no compulsion in religion: Truth stands out clear from error”
[Al-Qur’an 2:256]