Prejudicial anti-Islam scholars assert that prophet Muhammad ordered his followers to spread their religion by the sword. The Quran specifically forbade the spreading of the faith by force. Refer second Sura, verse 256 which says: There must be no coercion in matters of faith. True, Prophet Muhammad called for the use of the sword in his war against opposing tribes - Christian, Jewish and others - in Arabia, when he was building his state. But that was a political act not a religious one; basically a fight for self defence , not for the spreading of the faith. Jesus said: You will recognize them by their fruits. The treatment of other religions by Islam must be judged by a simple test: How did the Muslim rulers behave for more than a thousand years, when they had the power to spread the faith by the sword? Well, they just did not. For many centuries, the Muslims ruled Greece. Did the Greeks become Muslims? Did anyone even try to Islamize them? On the contrary, Christian Greeks held the highest positions in the Ottoman administration. THERE IS no evidence whatsoever of any attempt to impose Islam on the Jews. As is well known, under Muslim rule the Jews of Spain enjoyed a bloom the like of which the Jews did not enjoy anywhere else until almost our time. zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1159094813/
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