Muhammad the Greatest

by Ahmad Deedat

page 29

    How can the enemies of Islam account for Muhammad's
    phenomenal achievements except to decry that he spread
    his religion at the point of the sword? He forced Islam down
    peoples' throats!?
 
 6a. "HISTORY MAKES IT CLEAR HOWEVER, THAT
    THE LEGEND OF FANATICAL MUSLIMS SWEEP-
    ING THROUGH THE WORLD AND FORCING
    ISLAM AT THE POINT OF THE SWORD UPON
    CONQUERED RACES IS ONE OF THE MOST
    FANTASTICALLY ABSURD MYTHS THAT
    HISTORIANS HAVE EVER REPEATED."
                    De Lacy O'Leary in     "Islam at the Crossroads'' London, 1923, p.8  
    You do not have to be a historian like O'Leary to know
    that the Muslims ruled Spain for 736 years. The longest the
    Christians ever ruled over Muslims was 500 years in Mozam-
    bique, a territory captured from an Arab governor by the
    name of Musa-bin-baique, a name they could not properly
    pronounce, hence the name Mozambique. Even today, after
    five centuries of Christian overlordship the country is still 60
    percent Muslim.
 
    However, after eight centuries in Spain the Muslims were
    totally eliminated from that country so that not even one
    man was left to give the Azan {the Muslim call to prayer}.
    If the Muslims had used force, military or economic there
    would not have been any Christian left in Spain to have
    kicked the Muslims out. One can blame the Muslims for
    exploitation if you like but one cannot charge them with
    using the sword to convert Spaniards to the Islamic religion.
 
    Today, Islam is still spreading all over the world -
    and Muslims have NO sword!!
  

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