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Islam Spread because Islam Had Reason and Logic on Its Side

So, Islam spread because it made more sense; because it had reason and logic on its side; and because it offered everybody an opportunity to a better life.

For the first time in their life a lot of people saw an opportunity for personal dignity and freedom and for human equality and justice. And for the first time in their life they came face to face with a system whose teachings made a lot of sense to them. A system that seemed to have more reason in its teachings than the usual religious mumbo-jumbo they were used to throughout their lives.

It were these superhuman examples of equality, honesty, generosity, justice and compassion on the one hand and of basic rationality and simple elegance on the other hand that won converts to Islam by the droves, not Muslims running around with swords in their hands, forcing people to accept Islam or die.

The sword theory was a vicious lie that was invented by the Pope’s Christian followers to stem the tide of Islam from sweeping Europe as it had swept other parts of the world.

And it is pretty much the same thing happening now, as Islam is once again knocking at the gates of Europe and the West in the form of a rising tide of Muslim immigrants and local converts from Christianity.

Islam in Practice IV:
Saladin’s Magnanimous Treatment of the Crusader Followers of the Pope

The then Pope had personally rallied his followers to go to Jerusalem and drive out the “infidel” Muslims and kill them. The Pope’s Christian followers blazoned a trail of violence, blood and barbarity wherever they went.

The Crusaders even found it necessary to subject Jewish populations along the way to the usual Christian cruelty and inhumanity that had characterized Jewish-Christian relations for centuries.

They drenched the soil of the Holy Land in rivers of blood so deep their horses sank up to their knees in human gore.

Then along came Saladin, the Muslim follower of the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam. Saladin defeated the Crusaders and expelled them from the Holy Land. But in doing so he took a leaf directly out of the book of the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, at Makkah.

Saladin showed the Pope’s defeated followers legendary tolerance, forgiveness, generosity, compassion and large-heartedness. He guaranteed them security of person and property and he even provided horses and mounts to those who did not have and could not afford them.

But truth and gratefulness have rarely ever been the strong suit of the Pope’s Christian followers. While Richard the Lionheart became the hero of Christian folklore, Saladin’s story of compassion and forgiveness toward the Pope’s Crusader followers remained largely buried in specialized books of arcane history.

The world awaits a movie spectacle of the Passion of Christ dimension on an honest and truthful treatment of Saladin’s life and his exemplary treatment of the Crusader followers of the Pope.

Christian Practice I: The Inquisition

Now compare this Islamic practice with the practice of the Pope’s Church and his Christian followers after Muslim power was defeated in Spain in 1492.

Compare how the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, let go and forgave his worst enemies, when God had finally rendered them to him, defeated and dishonored, and when he gained complete control and supremacy over them. Compare that with how the Christian Church used the Inquisition to burn and butcher the defeated Muslims.

And not just the Muslims but also the Jews, whom the Muslims had given refuge from centuries of Christian persecution. The Muslims and Jews were forced to accept Christianity or be burned at the stake.

Now let us decide, truthfully and with God as our witness, who forced whom to abandon their faith or die? And who subjected whom to unspeakable horrors and atrocities if they refused to give up their faith? Was it the Muslim followers of the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, or was it the Christian followers of the Pope?

Christian followers of the Pope did it and then falsely accused the Muslim followers of the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, of doing what Islam had never sanctioned or condoned: force people to accept the new faith or die.

There is a name for this kind of pathological behavior in psychology. It is called projection.

Christian Practice II: The Crusades

Compare also the conduct of the Pope’s Church and his Christian followers toward the Muslims during the Crusades with the conduct of the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, at Makkah.

And compare it with the bloodless manner in which the Muslims, under the leadership of Khalifah Umar, the son of Khattab, a close friend, companion and associate of he Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, took over control of the Holy City of Jerusalem from Christian priests.

And also compare the conduct of the Pope’s Church and his Christian armies with the generous, magnanimous, forgiving and compassionate conduct of Saladin, the Muslim ruler of Egypt and Syria, when he drove the Pope’s Crusading armies from the Holy Land, where they had left a bloody trail that was knee-deep for their horses.

And then compare this with the conduct of the Pope’s Crusading armies in the gratuitous killing and plundering of Jews as they marched to liberate the Holy Land from the “infidel” Muslims.

Christian Practice III: The Jews

Compare the cruelties, killings and plundering the Pope’s Church and his Christian followers perpetrated upon the Jews in Europe for over a 1000 years with the tolerance, security and freedom of faith which the Muslims provided the Jews for hundreds of years in places like Muslim Spain, Turkey, Morocco and other Muslim countries and societies.

Compare the treatment of Jews in Christian Europe, from the earliest days till the end of World War II, for hundreds of years, with the treatment of Jews in Muslim societies.

Christian Practice IV: The Americas

You don’t need to be a scholar of history to know that it was the Pope’s Christian followers who conquered and claimed the Americas from top to bottom for God and for King.

Ask yourself what happened to hundreds of nations, peoples, cultures, cities and communities that populated the Americas before the Pope’s people set foot upon them.

And also ask, truthfully and with God as your witness, how would the Americas have turned out if it was the Muslim followers of the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, who had “discovered” and “conquered” the Americas, instead of the Pope’s Christian followers.

Christian Practice V: Slave Trade

In many ways, Muslims were the masters of the world till 1492. When that ended, the Pope’s Christian followers – call them Catholics or call them Protestants but they were all essentially followers of the same Christian religion of which the Pope is the head – became rich for the next several centuries by plundering the African continent of human beings and selling them as slaves all over the Americas, where they were treated worse than animals by the Christians.

Christian Practice VI: Missionaries

The Pope’s Christian followers offered the poor indigenous people of America a stark choice: accept Christianity or die. The poor “Indians” often did not understand what was being said and paid with their life in the most barbaric manner for not accepting the new faith and at times for just not being able to hear or understand the proclamation in a foreign tongue that was being read out.

Almost invariably, Christian missionaries were a part of the invading and occupying armies of the Pope’s Christian followers.

Missionaries and Success: Christian vs. Muslim Practice

Compare the number of people that have been working as full-time or part-time Christian missionaries around the world for the past 500 years, and the resources that have been at their disposal in terms of education, training, money, manpower and government patronage and protection, with their counterparts among Muslims.

That will show you whose armies and treasuries and government power were working to convert people around the world – Christians or Muslims. And it will also provide you an insight as to whose message was spread using unlimited power, wealth and resources and whose message people embraced voluntarily because of its fundamental rationality, reasonableness, simplicity and downright responsiveness to their basic human needs.

More of Christian Practice: Colonization

It was not enough for the Pope’s Christian followers to invade, conquer and occupy other people’s lands. They also had to either physically eliminate the local population or reduce them to “native” or second-class status in their own ancestral lands.

And then they had to plunder their lands and ship off their wealth and natural resources to their “mother countries” to the detriment of “native” lands and populations. Thus did Colonization become a unique gift of subjugation, slavery and second-class life that the Pope’s Christian followers imposed by brutal and ruthless force on the majority of the populations, peoples and societies of the world.

More of Christian Practice: World Wars I and II and Propaganda

World Wars I and II were special favors that the Pope’s Christian followers conferred upon each other, and upon the rest of the world, in successive waves of massacre, mayhem, brutality, barbarity, killing and rape on a global scale.

And they inaugurated a new era of mad pursuit of power, wealth, land and natural resources in which truth itself became the greatest casualty of war, perhaps more than ever before in human history.

The propaganda techniques, procedures and skills perfected during World Wars I and II became the monster that gave birth to an even greater monster of modern spin and doctored and diluted facts and news that have got the world in their grip today.

It is these newly packaged lies, and what is euphemistically called “spin,” that saturate the new world of today. But they do so for primarily the same old purposes of the rabid pursuit of power, wealth, land and natural resources throughout the Muslim world.

So, Who Really Used Violence to Propagate Religion?

So, the question that needs to be asked of the Pope is this: Whose followers really let lose this tidal wave of violence in the name of religion that has been sweeping the world for the past 1000 years?

Were they the Muslim followers of the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam? Or were they the Christian followers of the Pope, regardless of whether they call themselves Catholic or Protestant?

Religion and Reason:
A Quick Comparison of Islam and Christianity

The Pope also seemed to suggest that embracing Greek thought gave Christianity a lock on reason. Let us take a closer look.

First of all, Greek thought came to the Pope’s Christian followers through the intermediacy of Muslim scholars. But, as I pointed out earlier, truth and integrity have never been the strong suit of the Pope’s Christian followers.

That is partly why they call that period of human history when the radiance of Islamic enlightenment illumined the whole world as the Dark Ages.

Next, with regard to each one of the following points, let us trust our own native judgment, and let each one of us ask ourselves, truthfully and with God as our witness, where we think reason really seems to lie: on the side of the Pope and his teachings or on the side of the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, and his teachings?

So here goes.

• Like a lot of pagan systems around the world, the Pope teaches that God has a mother. The Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, teaches that God has no mother and no father.
• Again, like a lot of pagan systems around the world, the Pope teaches that God has a son. The Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, teaches that God has no son or daughter.
• The Pope teaches that we are all born sinners. The Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, teaches that we are all born innocent and free of sin.
• The Pope teaches that Adam’s Original Sin continues to haunt us all. The Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, teaches that God Almighty forgave Adam when he repented, so we bear no responsibility for the Original Sin.
• The Pope teaches that it was the woman who was responsible for the Fall of Man from Paradise. The Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, teaches that both man and woman disobeyed God’s command, but they both repented and God Almighty forgave them both.

• The Pope teaches that conception and childbirth are a woman’s curse for being the instrument of the Devil in Paradise and for causing the Fall of Man from Grace. The Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, teaches that both man and woman committed the sin, but God Almighty forgave them both when they both repented.

  And it is a remarkable blessing from God that a woman can bear children. And if a woman were to die in childbirth, her death should be considered the death of a martyr.

• The Pope teaches that he and others appointed by him can forgive people and absolve sinners of their responsibility for their sins. The Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, teaches that human beings are accountable for their actions and only God can forgive sin.
• The Pope teaches that to receive forgiveness and to have your sins absolved, you must confess to the Pope or to one of his agents in a confessional. The Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, teaches that to receive forgiveness and absolution for your sins, you must first begin by feeling genuine remorse for what you have done and then you must confess directly to God and not a fellow human being like yourself.
• Like many pagan systems around the world, the Pope teaches that the way God forgives human beings is by sending down his own begotten son and offering him as a sacrificial lamb for the sins of humanity. The Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, teaches that God forgives human beings directly when they turn to him in genuine and sincere repentance.
• The Pope teaches that Jesus Christ, God bless him, will take upon himself all the sins of humanity, thus wiping everyone’s slate clean if only they would accept him as their savior. The Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, teaches that no one can carry the sins of others on their shoulders and that each man and woman bears direct responsibility for their sins until such time as they seek God’s forgiveness and God chooses to forgive them.
• The Pope teaches his own infallibility. The Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, teaches that only God is infallible, and no human being, no matter how special, can be infallible. He teaches that we are all human and it is, as the Bible says, human to err.
• The Pope also teaches that the bread wafers Christians in good standing are given to eat at the Communion are actually the flesh of Jesus, Allah bless him. What can anyone say?
• The Pope also teaches that the wine Christians are given to drink at Communion is actually the blood of Jesus, Allah bless him. Again, what can anyone say?
• The Pope teaches that marriage is an evil – albeit a necessary evil. The Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, teaches that the state of matrimony is a great blessing from God.
• The Pope teaches that divorce is unlawful and unacceptable forever and under all conditions. The Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, teaches that divorce must always remain an option to rescue men and women from hopelessly failed marriages.

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