Well I disagree that it is "well known" and am asking for proof. You just saying that everybody knows it proves nothing.
Read the damn Koran dumb ass.
Read the bible, talk about your own ass,
The Bible does NOT tell its believers to conquer the world and to destroy all other forms of Religion.
What's the passage from the Koran that says to conquer the world and destroy all other forms of religion? Please post the text
I posted a link to the Moderate Muslim in a BBC article talking about the 4 pillars read that I am not posting it again.
Did you even read the article that you posted? It counters the point of your OP. The author does a very good job of describing the problems that are happening with "fundamentalists" who follow archaic practices and teach distortions within their ideology that go against the more modern and peaceful teachings of islam. Once you get deeper into the article you find passages like these:
---FROM YOUR ARTICLE----
The Koranic references to Umma include the historical aspect, such as the prophets of other faiths and their followers, a strong, interfaith and spiritual notion.
In early Islam, Umma also referred to political communities that included Jews and Christians, such as Medina under the Prophet Muhammad. The Ottomans abandoned the legal pluralism of the "millet" system (a faith-community framework) in the 19th Century and adopted a citizenship model that granted equal rights to all, irrespective of religion.
Sharia has had dozens of schools and interpretations over the centuries.
Narrow approaches do not work in our modern world. The holistic approach to Sharia known as Maqasid al-Sharia (universal objectives of law) posits equality, justice and compassion as the basis of all law, and is the only way forward.
The work of the recent or contemporary scholars Ibn Ashur, Nasr Abu Zayd and Ibn Bayyah are crucial in this regard.
It has to be recognised that Koranic penal codes, always accompanied by exhortations to mercy and forgiveness, were often suspended or replaced by imprisonment or financial penalties in the early centuries of Islam, since punishment, deterrence, restorative justice and rehabilitation were the operative concerns.
Also, arbitrary interpretations of Sharia were not enforced at state level in early Islam and most of Sharia is voluntary, relating to believers' daily worship and social transactions.
The Koranic spirit of freedom, equality, justice and compassion must be reclaimed, with an emphasis on Sharia as ethics rather than rigid ritualism.
The Koranic notion of Jihad is essentially about the sacred and physical-spiritual nature of life's struggles, as summed up by "strive in God", a verse revealed in the pacifist period of Islam before war was permitted.
