Umm, have no desire to appear impatient with those who say it is only Muslims who move to punish or diminish non-believers.
Christianity is rife with massacres and slaughters of people who resisted their 'Christianizing'......the Crusades, the American Natives, the Jewish pogroms, the Holocaust, the American KKK. Hell, even the Christians kill other Christians for their 'Christian beliefs', witness the Catholics vs Hugenot with reports of 70,000 massacred on St. Bartholomew's Day.
And the Christians ain't alone in bloody work....witness the Hindu pogroms against Muslims in India.
So spare me, the self-righteous caterwauling that Muslims = Bad; while us non-Muslims = Good.
Except I didn't say it was "ONLY" Muslims whom do such. I merely pointed out some of the historical and dogma context for the Muslim criminals here.
Along with your lack of honesty, integrity, or ethics in misquoting and slandering me, you drag out this out canard of the loonie Left and "what-about-ism" confusing political agendas by persons of specific religious belief. And of course it's heavy on the Chrisitian examples and very light on all other religions of the planet and it's history.
Where in the Old Testament are the Jews commanded by JHWH to convert the rest of humanity to Judism, by the sword if necessary?
Where in the New Testament do we find Jesus Christ carrying a sword and leading armies to force others to convert to his ideology~'religion'?
During it's first three centuries, Christianity was briefly tolerated within the Rome empire, then mostly persecuted. Early in the fourth century AD it finally is made legal, and later on it becomes the "Official" religion of the Roman Empire. Contrast that with Muhammad, the example he set and the early history of Islam (unique among history's religions);
EXCERPT:
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The
early Muslim conquests (
Arabic: الفتوحات الإسلامية,
al-Futūḥāt al-Islāmiyya), also referred to as the
Arab conquests[4] and the
early Islamic conquests[5] began with the
Islamic prophet Muhammad in the 7th century. He established a new unified
polity in the
Arabian Peninsula which under the subsequent
Rashidun and
Umayyad Caliphates saw a century of rapid expansion.
The resulting empire stretched from parts of
Central Asia and the
Indian subcontinent, across the
Middle East,
North Africa, the
Caucasus, and parts of Southwest
Europe (
Sicily and the
Iberian Peninsula to the
Pyrenees).
Edward Gibbon writes in
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:
Under the last of the
Umayyads, the Arabian empire extended two hundred days journey from east to west, from the confines of
Tartary and India to the shores of the
Atlantic Ocean ... We should vainly seek the indissoluble union and easy obedience that pervaded the government of
Augustus and the
Antonines; but the progress of
Islam diffused over this ample space a general resemblance of manners and opinions. The language and laws of the
Quran were studied with equal devotion at
Samarcand and
Seville: the
Moor and the
Indian embraced as countrymen and brothers in the
pilgrimage of
Mecca; and the
Arabian language was adopted as the popular idiom in all the provinces to the westward of the
Tigris.
The Muslim conquests brought about the collapse of the
Sassanid Empire and a great territorial loss for the
Byzantine Empire. The reasons for the Muslim success are hard to reconstruct in hindsight, primarily because only fragmentary sources from the period have survived.
Fred McGraw Donner suggests that formation of a state in the Arabian peninsula and ideological (i.e., religious) coherence and mobilization was a primary reason why the
Muslim armies in the space of a hundred years were able to establish one of the
largest pre-modern empires until that time. Estimates of the total area of the combined territory held by the Islamic Caliphate at its peak have been as high as thirteen million square kilometers, or five million square miles.
[6] Most historians agree as well that the Sassanid Persian and Byzantine Roman empires were militarily and economically exhausted from decades of
fighting one another.
[7]
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Expansion from 622–750, with modern borders overlaid |
| Date | 622–750 |
|---|
| Location | Levant, Mesopotamia, Persia, North Africa, Iberia, Gaul, Transoxania, Sindh, Kabulistan, Zamindawar, Zabulistan, Khorasan, Tukharistan, Sistan and Caucasus |
|---|
Territorial
changes | Islamic expansion:
under Muhammad, 622–632
under Rashidun caliphs, 632–661
under Umayyad caliphs, 661–750
|
|---|
|
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