It was only after the islamic religion by the sword, not evangelism, had conquered a huge area of europe and africa. I made an earlier attempt to reflect on this experience in the book i. Religion of peace is not a harmless platitude the spectator. Many of its followers follow a fundamentalist version of islam called wahhabi.
Clearly, from the recitations of the quran, to the teachings of leading imams in the world today, we understand that islam means the submission of all people to itself. Reviewed in the united states on october 19, 2018 maybe instead of reading a book where the author writes his own opinion, you open up a quran to learn if islam is a religion of peace or war. When submission confronts freedom there is only one inevitable outcome. In this anthology, prominent muslims, christians, jews, and atheists debate topics like whether the muslim faith promotes aggressive war and encourages violence towards women. Islam s war against the world and now available in paperback, cogently demonstrates that islam is a violent, expansionary ideology that seeks the subjugation and destruction of other faiths, cultures, and systems of government. Many people are not accurately educated regarding the reason for the crusades in which christians did fight and kill muslims. Islam, like christianity, is not a homogenous religion. People of the book, jews and christians, can be tolerated and given some self rule if they pay special taxes. Any mean for spreading islam and the truth, or to fight for what is right and condemn what is wrong such as fighting the bad and helping the oppressed even if they were not muslims are considered jihad. Unlike other books, the quran can be translated but not rewritten. Religion of war or peace book180 pages one minute you read a newspaper article sharing the shocking truth of how, once again, socalled radical muslims have brutally murdered dozens upon dozens of people in one part of the world and in some c. It is divided into many traditions, the main ones being sunni, shiite, and sufi. You can download a booklet here, or to have one mailed to you, please call 1 8007590700. Islam s jihad against the world, formerly religion of peace.
A very small, radical, hatefilled, extremist, fundamentalist, terrorist wing does exist. Being a religion of peace could imply that islam advocates pacifism. It is certainly not, as some illinformed people say, solely a religion of war. Jihad means struggling in the name of allah almighty. Islam is the worlds second largest and fastest growing religion.
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