Board Thread:Fan Fiction/@comment-26295802-20160614010310/@comment-26295802-20160618193735

Draugluin the werewolf wrote: actually the fighting started after the founding and Muhhamed's death (when the various groups started to back out and form their own nations). As for the manner in which Islam spread.... hmm... North Africa it was spread by being thought of as trustowrthy and good for a merchant's image, in Indonesia it was spread via poetry. In pretty much everywhere else it was spread by political rulers (who happened to be Muslim) setting trends. If one looks at Al-Andalus it was considerably more religously tolerant than any other area in Europe during it's heyday. I'm not talking about "any other area in Europe during its heyday", I'm making a parrellel between the founding of Islam and the founding of Christianity, and pointing out the rather strong differences.